In a quiet corner of the Smithsonian American History Museum, in a small case in the shipping transportation section, next to a few coins from the 1800s, is a small fleck of gold under a magnifying glass. One would have expected any gold samples to be part of the extensive gold collection held by the Smithsonian…
Delta Gold Diggers Gold & Outdoor Festival August 23-24th, 2014 Last weekend, The Diggings visited the Gold & Outdoor festival, hosted by the Delta Gold Diggers. Gold prospectors and their families descended on the Mother Lode Fairgrounds in Sonora, California to learn to pan for gold, compete to prove their skills with a metal detector,…
