Panning for gold makes a comeback

[jeff of pa]

NEW LONDON, N.C. — Ashley Michalak and Nate Neitz are dipping pans of dirt into a long wooden trough on a hot summer day. But these aren't ordinary pans, and it's not ordinary dirt. They're gold pans, and the dirt — they hope — is pay dirt. The two cousins are panning for gold at the Cotton Patch Gold Mine in the heart of the nation's oldest gold-mining country. "It's cool. You never know what you're going to find," says Nate, 12.

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[Propanner]

I dont think it ever left.

[russau]

not bad! not bad at all!

[strickman]

pp is on a roll