Hi folks,
while driving to work this morning I listened to a story on a current affairs program here in australia about the 'new' California gold rush. Below is the transcript of the story. Thought it might interest a few of you. regards. r
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(C) 2010 Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Gold glistens for hard up Californians
Lisa Millar reported this story on Tuesday, October 26, 2010 08:27:00
TONY EASTLEY: With gold hitting highs of more than US$1300 an ounce, and the US economy still struggling, jobless Americans have been heading to the hills.
Thousands of hopeful prospectors have been flooding California's west, hoping to strike it rich.
North America correspondent Lisa Millar reports.
(water sluicing, gold panning)
LISA MILLAR: They say the streams that trickle down through the Californian forests are still filled with gold.
The challenge is to find it.
Battery operated sluice boxes hum, while tiny metal detectors sound like frenzied mosquitoes.
(buzz of metal detectors)
Hidden by the shade of the trees, these modern day gold diggers are searching through the rocks and black sand, looking for the flash of yellow that indicates they're in the right spot.
Pucky Junghans has been prospecting for 16 years and is the founder of the East Bay Prospectors Club.
PUCKY JUNGHANS: When I started gold was about, let's just say, $300 an ounce and now it's almost $1400. And that's why I have a club with 300 members. It's a gold rush.
LISA MILLAR: You reach his mining claim here, just west of Yosemite National Park, after an hour on narrow roads that wind their way down the mountains.
PUCKY JUNGHANS: Dump just right into a pan, slosh it around, see if we get any gold at all
while driving to work this morning I listened to a story on a current affairs program here in australia about the 'new' California gold rush. Below is the transcript of the story. Thought it might interest a few of you. regards. r
===============================
(C) 2010 Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Gold glistens for hard up Californians
Lisa Millar reported this story on Tuesday, October 26, 2010 08:27:00
TONY EASTLEY: With gold hitting highs of more than US$1300 an ounce, and the US economy still struggling, jobless Americans have been heading to the hills.
Thousands of hopeful prospectors have been flooding California's west, hoping to strike it rich.
North America correspondent Lisa Millar reports.
(water sluicing, gold panning)
LISA MILLAR: They say the streams that trickle down through the Californian forests are still filled with gold.
The challenge is to find it.
Battery operated sluice boxes hum, while tiny metal detectors sound like frenzied mosquitoes.
(buzz of metal detectors)
Hidden by the shade of the trees, these modern day gold diggers are searching through the rocks and black sand, looking for the flash of yellow that indicates they're in the right spot.
Pucky Junghans has been prospecting for 16 years and is the founder of the East Bay Prospectors Club.
PUCKY JUNGHANS: When I started gold was about, let's just say, $300 an ounce and now it's almost $1400. And that's why I have a club with 300 members. It's a gold rush.
LISA MILLAR: You reach his mining claim here, just west of Yosemite National Park, after an hour on narrow roads that wind their way down the mountains.
PUCKY JUNGHANS: Dump just right into a pan, slosh it around, see if we get any gold at all