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More Americans On The Hunt For Gold Call them the '09ers. More Americans are hunting for gold, according to the Gold Prospectors Association of America. The group says membership has risen as the economy has fallen; it also helps that the price of gold has risen.
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More Americans On The Hunt For Gold

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More Americans On The Hunt For Gold

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More Americans On The Hunt For Gold

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Call them the "0-9ers." More Americans are hunting for gold, according to the Gold Prospectors Association of America. The group says membership has risen as the economy has fallen; it also helps that the price of gold has risen.

Nancy Roberts, president of Central Valley Prospectors in Fresno, Calif., talks to NPR's Guy Raz about gold fever.