Discovery 2000 Students discover the Gold Rush at the Oakland Museum of California

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Students and their families enjoy their lunches in the Museum gardens.
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Gold Rush docents pose in their best Daugerrian style before starting their tours.
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Our Gold Rush docents are normally a cheery bunch.
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Museum teachers explain some of the basics of gold panning to a prospective miner.
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Students are eager gold panners after having been bitten by the Gold bug
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Gold panning would be easy if only the stream beds were raised up and the water was a little warmer
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One lucky miner sees a little color at the bottom of the gold pan
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A few hundred pans of gravel like this one and the lucky miner might earn a buck or two.

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