Coming as I do from a part of the world that was literally born out of a gold rush -the storage vaults at the bottom of the Treasury building on Spring Street are something to behold - I must say I found this story about the second Californian gold rush quite heart warming.
In Victoria, they estimate that there are still tonnes of gold to be had, albeit much of it requiring deep mining, rather than the close to surface alluvial gold you can just pan out like these Californians are doing.
In fact, according to some estimates, there's so much gold left under Bendigo, that it would actually be economically viable to raze the twon and move its inhabitants, then dig the bugger up to get all the gold underneath.
Eureka!
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