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Close your eyes and imagine you are standing up to your knees in a cold river.

The water is rushing around you. You see a fish swim by. Your feet crunch in the rocks as you walk around. Above you the sky is clear and blue.

You're holding a metal pan.

You dip it down into the water and scrape it along the bottom,

picking up rocks and small gravel.

After lifting it out of the water,

you sift out the larger rocks and swirl it around, looking very closely at the minerals.

You swirl it again and then you see it, a glint of something shiny.

You reach down into the water and pick it up. Sure enough it's a gold nugget.

You hold it up in the air and shout, I've found one, I found one!

Your friends nearby see it and congratulate you. You've found gold.

In 1848 in California and the United States, a man named John Sutter was building a sawmill.

Sutter had building a sawmill.

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