WindHarvester
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The near-record price of gold, coupled with an anything-but-glittering economy, has triggered a modern-day gold rush.
Some folks are digging through cabinets, dresser drawers and jewelry boxes, looking for unwanted gold they can swap for cash.
Others are taking a more old-fashioned approach: They're pulling out their atlases, pulling on their waders and stepping into out-of-the-way streambeds in search of tiny flecks of gold.
It's nothing like the California Gold Rush of 1849, when hundreds of thousands of gold-seekers - or "forty-niners" - headed west, drawn by dreams of instant wealth. But a growing number of people are panning for gold - in Ohio and across the United States.
Travel companies are offering gold-panning excursions. Would-be prospectors are snatching up basic equipment. (A "starter kit" sells for about $39.) And gold-
prospecting organizations are reporting significant membership growth.
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FULL STORY BELOW:
http://www.dispatch.com/live/conten...bugs-abuzz-in-quest-for-treasure.html?sid=101
Some folks are digging through cabinets, dresser drawers and jewelry boxes, looking for unwanted gold they can swap for cash.
Others are taking a more old-fashioned approach: They're pulling out their atlases, pulling on their waders and stepping into out-of-the-way streambeds in search of tiny flecks of gold.
It's nothing like the California Gold Rush of 1849, when hundreds of thousands of gold-seekers - or "forty-niners" - headed west, drawn by dreams of instant wealth. But a growing number of people are panning for gold - in Ohio and across the United States.
Travel companies are offering gold-panning excursions. Would-be prospectors are snatching up basic equipment. (A "starter kit" sells for about $39.) And gold-
prospecting organizations are reporting significant membership growth.
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FULL STORY BELOW:
http://www.dispatch.com/live/conten...bugs-abuzz-in-quest-for-treasure.html?sid=101
