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There’s Gold in the Nugget Ridge Slot

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The Gold Rush was basically a 19th-century get-rich-quick scheme with pickaxes. Thousands of people abandoned perfectly sensible lives, traveled across a continent, and started digging holes because somebody somewhere had found a shiny rock. Most of them did not become rich, of course. The people selling shovels, boots, booze and wildly overpriced beans did. So…