<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/313db35a-da23-471f-ae45-349c537a676f/7161FBBA-EF23-455C-AC19-54413D34EC19/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2009/10/25/MNFN1A9KBD.DTL&o=1" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2009/10/25/MNFN1A9KBD.DTL&o=1" style="font-size: 11px;">www.sfgate.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2009/10/25/MNFN1A9KBD.DTL&o=1"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.sfgate.com/img/12D13AB7-1246-462E-9CBE-42E017F9532E" alt="Record gold prices have prospectors hunting for nuggets l... 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They're popping up in every corner of the state, from the Stanislaus River outside Yosemite National Park to the Klamath River near the Oregon border and the deserts of Southern California. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/10/25/MNFN1A9KBD.DTL"><P>Like virtually every other prospecting tour company in the Sierra, they've seen their Gold Prospecting Adventures business on Jamestown's Main Street explode, doubling to 6,000 customers in the past year alone. Most come just to have fun, such as school groups - but the ones hot to make quick cash have jumped from a couple a month to at least one a day.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7161FBBA-EF23-455C-AC19-54413D34EC19/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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