March 26, 2009
the new gold rush
A host of unemployed are mining for gold in California.
“Some days you sit here and make two cents. Some days you make a couple of hundred dollars,” said John Gurney, who like his crusty predecessors came from the East to find gold by digging around in California river beds.
“I had one good day and made about $10,000,” Gurney told the KNBC-TV in Los Angeles.
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