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Gold Mining Retreat in Kalmiopsis Wilderness

This article was in the Oregonian and is reprinted here for gold miners to find as mining for archival articles in online newspapers is awfully difficult.  Please look respect the advertisers and look at the original article and of course the comments which aren’t reproduced here.

Developer lays claim to more than gold in Oregon wilderness

By Les Zaitz, The Oregonian, March 13, 2010, 8:00PM

campemily4.JPGCourtesy of Dave Rutan

Camp Emily sits next to the Little Chetco River in southern Oregon’s Kalmiopsis Wilderness. CAVE JUNCTION — Three years ago, Dave Rutan opened a gold mining retreat inside the Kalmiopsis Wilderness of southern Oregon, bringing in helicopters, gas-powered dredges and paying customers.

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New miner sluices for ‘good’ gold

This is a reprint from the Portland Tribune on July 10, 2006. 

And while this is one way to pan for gold and not use dangerous chemicals, The Gold Cone is another great way. 

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A great place to use The Gold Cone

Yreka Prospector

On our recent trip to CA to MakerFaire we stopped to pose in front of the Yreka gold mining statue of a prospector with our traveling GoldCone and then try our luck in the nearby stream. [...]