About twenty years ago, my folks visited my brother in the foothills of the Sierras in California and they all went panning for gold on someone's property (I forget if they had to pay or not.) They all came back with little vials of gold nuggets from the stream. Kind of fascinating really.
BTW. I believe that AG allowed the market to drop today to keep up the semblance of a free market, but you can be damn sure he will be pumping tomorrow right from the get-go. As you have said so many times--and if you are correct--he cannot allow the weekend to begin on the heels of two days of selling. I don't think even he could avert another Black Monday in that case! Actually, tomorrow could be a wonderful test of the validity of the Greenspan Gambit.