A young man named Shaw Ryan has developed a better way of sampling the ground and has located an area that looks to have immense deposits of gold!  It came to the attention of some of the worlds largest mining companies, who purchased his claims.

My friend in Dawson said another company bought 50,000 claim tags which used up all of the governments tags and their suppliers can’t make them fast enough.

Don’t everybody rush to Dawson though!  Like in the gold rush of 1898 most of the claims are held by someone who was there before.

It does show that huge new discoveries are made by ordinary people sometimes.  The whole area had been scoured for over 100 years!

Congratulations Shawn Ryan!!!!