I'm in California, not far from the canyon above Azusa mentioned in the article. The last time gold shot up I looked into what hobby mining is about since I'm a

I'm in California, not far from the canyon above Azusa mentioned in the article. The last time gold shot up I looked into what hobby mining is about since I'm a play-in-nature kind of guy. The thing I took away from the websites I visited is that it all comes down to dumb luck to be successful. You can have a guy with a simple pan find more in a few days than the guy with multiple sluices and $10K of equipment has done in months. One story told of a guy carefully panning who looked up because someone playing in the river had slipped on a rock. That rock turned out to have about $32K worth of gold in it.