More than 2,000 illegal miners may converge on a site when there is a reported gold find.
Expecting gold, the farmer and his wife instead find strange looking rocks.
Only then did he call his superiors in Panama City to report the enormous gold find.
I was just assigned to blitz duty that day, right after they made the big gold find.
It is unclear how much gold the 988-ton dredge actually found during the five years it was used.
Like the others, Holcomb suffered from the lack of supplies and minimal gold finds in the rural mountain community.
The eleven years' work had cost $55,000, and the first gold found was a grain the size of a pin's head.
But many analysts were suspicious, especially when the company admitted a few days later that it had probably overestimated its Indonesian gold find.
With gold such as the old cowboy in Flagstaff had found?
During rainy season people often find the gold, silver items from Bhirr.