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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kanga, post: 1072311, member: 9270&quot;]It looks like it&#039;s been cleaned.</p><p>PCGS will only slab it as &quot;Genuine&quot; at best <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, I have.</p><p>On the Tanana River near Fairbanks, Alaska.</p><p><br /></p><p>But not panning in the classic sense.</p><p>There was a large dredge that would scoop up material from the river bottom and process it for gold throwing the waste off to the side in big piles.</p><p>Apparently it was only about 50% efficient.</p><p>So you&#039;d take your pan to the top of one of the piles, scrape the dirt off the rocks, then run/slide/fall down the pile to the river and do the traditional panning.</p><p>(NOTE: The tops of the piles were the last material to be dredged out of the river so it had the most gold.)</p><p>I found maybe a half dozen flakes from about 2 hours work.</p><p>Definitely couldn&#039;t have made a living that way.</p><p>This was 1963 and gold was something like $42/oz.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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