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Welcome to Gold Getter News: How I Got the Gold Bug
Author: John Green, Publisher of GGN
I sure was disappointed, but a few minutes later, I
found another nugget. Although not nearly as large as
the first one, it was large enough to have Dick Burrows
put it on a ring for me, along with a couple little
"clinkers" that I found downstream.

So that is how it all started -- me, alone on a stream
infected with "the fever." But fortunately for me, just a
few short months later, the Lord gave me a mining
partner and life partner -- we have been married nearly
27 years now. Karen is a super writer, so I will let her
tell some of our mining experiences elsewhere.
The ring I had made
with some of the first
nuggets I found on the
Yuba in Downieville, CA
I just want to say that there is nothing like getting outdoors and enjoying
God's creation while looking for gold, platinum and rocks.

On this website we want people of all ages to learn how to find various
treasures and add new dimension to enjoying the outdoors.

Remember to always be respectful of the land and other people and their right
to use our natural resources. When you dig a hole and are finished with it, fill
it back up before leaving, thus protecting animals and people from stepping in
it. Remember to leave nothing behind when you leave.

Something we would like to do here is to provide an avenue for others to tell
about their mining and prospecting adventures. Send us pictures that we can
publish on the website and, in the future we will offer a way to upload your
videos as well.

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Back in the fall of 1978, I gave a ride to a hitchhiker who started telling me about
mining gold and got me interested enough that I changed my plans and went to
Northern California to an old mining town -- Downieville.

I am not capable of putting into words the feeling I got when I arrived in town,
but I knew that I would spend some time there, so I rented a kitchenette by the
month.

The next day I went to the local mining shop where the owners, Dick and Jim
Burrows, sold me a book on basic prospecting and a gold pan.Dick Burrows and I
went down to the Yuba River, which flows through town, and he showed me
how to pan.

It didn't take long to learn. The first pan I had color. The second pan I had a little
clinker that I put in a little bottle they sold to me to put gold in. That is when the
"gold bug" bit me and I have been infected ever since.

The next day, I bought a sluice box and "oh boy" what a difference! I wound up
spending the winter there, partly because of the gold, but mostly because I
enjoyed the town and the people.

While I was there I sluiced almost everyday -- sometimes even when it snowed.
One day I was sluicing and Dick Burrows came down to see how I was doing. A
few minutes before he arrived, I had found a large nugget in my sluice box -- the
largest I have ever found. But, afraid that I might lose it, I had picked it up with
my fingers, since the water was cold and I was wearing rubber gloves. I put the
nugget in my pocket for safe-keeping. When I reached in my pocket the nugget
wasn't there. Apparently, I had dropped it while trying to put it in my pocket.
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