Tramp - Short story about tailings - We spent a month dredging down through 8ft of big boulders, every day slowly winching by hand. Finally got the hole big
enough (about 30ft circle) and punched to bedrock in relitive safety. There it was! Beautiful little pickers laying in a v-shaped trough, running parallel with
the river. Ten days and ten feet forward, it ran out. 9 ounces! But here's the punch line - how much more was downstream? We'd piled boulders behind us
and of course the dredge tailings were back there too. Not a day goes by, I don't think about how much more is still laying out there!