Alaska Gold Rush Diary

Zhou Xin could no longer refuse the conditions offered by Edward.

As for Edward's character, he doesn't know him and needs to observe. If he finds any problems, he will decisively kick him out.

As things stand, at least I'm not going to be manipulated by him.

The worst-case scenario is that Edward is lazy and only wants to divide the gold without doing any work.

The final allocation right is in his own hands, unless he tries to seize it.

Having figured this out, Zhou Xin no longer hesitated, extended his right hand and smiled, "From now on, we're teammates."

Edward beamed and grasped Zhou Xin's hands, saying, "I will definitely prove to you that I am a trustworthy teammate."

Seeing his younger brother emerge from his negative state and find a new path, Bemon was also very happy.

He thought to himself that even if Zhou Xin was just lucky to have a good harvest during the gold rush season and wouldn't have such a good harvest in the future, at least Edward would have something to do.

"It's a pity I'm not feeling well, otherwise I would like to go with you!" Bemon said.

"Good that you understand, my brother. I don't want to have to use the strength I used to carry gold to carry you." Edward chuckled.

After chatting for a while, the two brothers forcibly dragged Zhou Xin back to the Brown Bear Bar and bought him a drink to express their gratitude.

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Lying in bed, Zhou Xin began to think about his next steps.

Just now at the bar, Edward kept asking Zhou Xin where he planned to pan for gold next gold rush season.

Originally, continuing to pan for gold at Falls Lake would have been the best option, since there was still a lot of gold there.

But now Livinggood is in the dead of winter, where the ice cover is extremely long, lasting seven or eight months.

Are we just going to wait seven or eight months before continuing our gold rush?

The answer to this question is obvious: having finally acquired the ability to get rich quickly, how can we waste it in this freezing cold?

Based on the information he had gathered online, he quickly came up with several feasible solutions.

His first, and currently most preferred, option is to go to the Australian wilderness to dig for gold.

Western Australia has vast, uninhabited wilderness where large amounts of gold are buried beneath the land.

There was also a gold rush in the area in the mid-18th century, with many large gold mines.

A giant gold nugget weighing 72 kilograms was once found there!

Even now, many gold prospectors still go there every day with detectors looking for gold.

Zhou Xin possesses the scent of gold, which not only eliminates the need for bulky detectors but also allows him to determine the size of gold nuggets in the soil by the intensity of their scent.

How can technology compare to cheating?

If you're lucky enough to find a large nugget of gold, you'll be rich.

However, he also knew in his heart that most of the time, he would only find tiny gold nuggets, and finding a gold nugget was not so easy.

The biggest problem with gold mining in Western Australia is that it is extremely physically demanding.

Large gold mines have long been developed, and gold-rich areas have been riddled with holes.

Moreover, the area suffers from severe water shortages, and gold panning there employs a completely different dry panning method compared to Alaska.

This means that to pan for gold there, he would need to buy a dry gold panning machine that is not needed here, and he doesn't want to invest too much.

This means that gold can only be mined manually.

Often, gold is buried very deep and can only be found after a long time of digging.

This is not like gold panning; it's real physical labor.

This means that efficiency will not be very high, unless you are lucky enough to find a rich mining area where gold is relatively concentrated and the gold nuggets are large.

Of course, its advantages are also obvious, namely, it is simple and easy to use.

All you need to do is rent an off-road vehicle and grab some digging tools to get started.

They work during the day and sleep in the car at night, so life is quite hard.

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The second option is to venture deep into the primeval forests of Guyana or Suriname in South America to pan for gold in the gold-rich streams.

Due to alluvial deposits, the gold there, like in Alaska, exhibits a clear pattern of accumulation and distribution.

Once the sedimentation point is found, mining can be concentrated, eliminating the need to travel around.

Of course, living conditions would be much harsher in the primeval forest when panning for gold.

Fortunately, with the guidance of a group of wilderness survival experts, Zhou Xin was not afraid of surviving in the primeval forest.

The biggest concern is actually the procedural issues.

Fortunately, we now have some start-up capital. If we decide to go to the Guyana rainforest, we can find a local broker who specializes in handling related matters to help with the procedures.

After all, many people go to Gaia to pan for gold, so there must be quite a few people who need this kind of service.

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The third option is to go to the mountainous region of Ghana in Africa, where there are many places with soil rich in gold.

The most unique aspect of gold panning in Ghana compared to the previous two options is that many Chinese people, especially those from Guangxi, are also engaged in gold panning there.

Unlike Alaska or Australia, Ghana has many untouched virgin lands, so its gold content is also quite considerable.

However, it is also the most chaotic of these places. It is said that you need to have a heavily armed bodyguard team to pan for gold there, otherwise you may work hard for a month and have the gold stolen by the local gang.

After all, Black men are known as zero-dollar shoppers, and in the minds of many local Black people, outsiders have stolen the gold from their land.

As for the large number of Chinese travelers there, Zhou Xin didn't see it as an advantage; in fact, he might see it as a disadvantage.

He's long past the age of naivety. Nobody believes the nonsense about fellow countrymen not deceiving each other, or about fellow countrymen meeting with tears in their eyes.

He was quite certain that if he were to infringe upon the interests of others there, he might not even know how he died.

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After some analysis, Zhou Xin finally decided that he should take the hardship and go to Western Australia to dig for gold.

Now that we have Edward as a cheap labor force, we can dump all the dirty and hard work on him!

As for other places, we'll make plans when our strength allows.

While digging for gold in Western Australia, they also looked for suitable candidates to form a gold mining team.

If a full gold-mining team is not assembled by the time the Alaskan gold rush season arrives next year, the gold-mining plan at Falls Pool will be postponed.

After all, the gold has always been there, and it's unlikely that anyone else will go there to pan for gold anytime soon.

The next day, Zhou Xin got up very early.

Logan, like a dog, would go crazy if kept at home for too long, so he had to take Logan out for a walk while everyone else was still asleep.

The cold wind howled, and Zhou Xin shivered, shrinking his neck in the cold.

"This isn't going to work. We need to get the paperwork done as soon as possible, get Logan vaccinated, and try to get a dog license soon."

In the United States, owning a pet, especially a dog, is quite a troublesome thing.

Not only do you have to go through a lot of procedures, but large dogs also need to have a tracking chip implanted in their bodies.

Looking at Logan, who was nearly 80 centimeters tall and whose ferocious nature was hard to conceal, Zhou Xin felt a little troubled.