The longer of the two follows the creek on a route taken by the gold prospectors.
However, there are solid estimates in regards to the profits prospectors were pulling in.
Whether they will keep such a large area off-limits to prospectors is harder to say.
Other prospectors - old and new - will hope that they will be as lucky.
During the Gold Rush, prospectors spent five long days on it, from the Pacific Ocean to the Yukon River.
Fifteen years ago, prospectors considered themselves lucky if they hit oil on one of every three wells drilled.
Fremont in 1844, and swarmed with silver prospectors just a few decades later.
They also have shops in Western Australia and New South Wales packed with equipment, hi-tech and old, for Australia's new prospectors.
There were diamonds everywhere, many of them on the surface, allowing prospectors to simply crawl about on their bellies to find them.
In the summers, the Western snows have barely receded before prospectors arrive, often with private clients who pay to hunt with guides.
Already the Turquoise Hill, where the colour of the soil first betrayed the presence of copper to prospectors decades ago, has vanished.
Within a year, thousands of prospectors had arrived from the East and swarmed over every creek and river in the Sierra Nevada foothills.
Virtual shopping is today's gold rush with prospectors digging for deals on Web sites like mysimon.com owned by CNET Networks and eBay 's Shopping.com.
In 1900, a couple of prospectors spotted what appeared to be a patch of nice green pasture on a distant hillside, just right for grazing their horses.
Even grizzled prospectors whooped when, after two hours and 48 minutes, the longest championship fight of the 20th century, Nelson was disqualified for a deliberate low blow.
The road began as the result of a scam back in the Klondike days of 1898, when thousands of prospectors were scrambling to get to the diggings in the Yukon.
He fielded calls and emails from big-city buyers in New York and Chicago, real estate prospectors in the Ozarks and Florida and even multiple serious inquiries from China.
To his credit, the mining towns are more peaceful these days, and the number of self-employed prospectors has dropped in recent years from 25, 000 or so to 5, 000.
The 47-year resident of Ballarat says that gold has been continuously found in the region since 1851, but technology has recently become an essential aid for modern prospectors.
Other prospectors include Canada's Heritage Oil and Western Oil Sands.
Though it is hard to believe, many of the stories are true about those first prospectors literally dipping their pans in creek gravel and pulling out gold nuggets worth a fortune.
Before the 1960s, the few rare earths that were needed were gathered from sediment deposits along rivers in India and Brazil (like those prospectors washing for gold with pans in Western movies).
As we purl through the ice-strewn waters around the glacier, I find myself thinking not of the prospectors who arrived here from Seattle, but of the 19th-century railway baron, EH Harriman of the Union Pacific Railroad.
That was the start of the famous Gold Rush, which ruined Marshall's employer, a landowner named John Sutter whose property in what is now the heart of metropolitan Sacramento was overrun by gold-mad prospectors.
There was a time, less than two centuries ago, when the only trains heading west from Chicago were composed of wagons carrying groups of traders, prospectors and missionaries seeking their fortunes or their freedom in frontier outposts.
Between March 3 and March 6, over 30, 000 people are expected to attend the mining convention that brings a mix of investors, analysts, mining executives, geologists, prospectors and international government delegations from around the world.
While a cruiser will not have time to experience the entire 665-mile Chilkoot Trail from Skagway to the headwaters of the Yukon River, local hikes can give you a sense of what these prospectors faced.
Born in Chicago, he bought into penny mining stocks and pitched them on the Vancouver Stock Exchange--until prospectors of his Diamond Fields Resources looking for diamonds in Voisey's Bay, Newfoundland happened upon a vast nickel deposit.
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