Remains of the day
The entire day's take is spread out on a single piece of letter-sized paper. McCracken passes a magnet over the sheet. It attracts iron-rich black sand, leaving behind the nonmagnetic gold.
He then pours the precious metal onto a scale. McCracken fiddles with the slider weights and then announces, "We got an ounce and a half of gold - not bad for two days' work."
The haul includes 13 small nuggets among the flakes and flecks.
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