A vial of gold flakes represents a day's worth of work for the Northwest Montana Gold Prospectors at their claim along Libby Creek. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
August 4, 2021
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Prospecting group shares gold-panning experience
Shovels in hand, covered in dust, they work in the sandy soil above Libby Creek in the Kootenai National Forest. Like so many before them, they search the hillside and creek for the flakes of fortune that have drawn people to the remote stream since the 1860s.