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Interviewee: Greg Lamb
Interviewer: Sharain Jones
Date: Tuesday, August 2, 2005
Location: Sam Waller Museum

SJ
Now with prospecting, what did that involve exactly?

GL
Well I guess there different types of prospecting ya know the old, you hear of the old prospector with the whiskers and pick axe and the mule going to the whatever, but up in this it was by canoe and uh, it was base metals they were looking at and uh the country is full of veins and gold veins and nickel deposits and so on around and uh there's lots of old time prospectors still around that are still alive and, but its all part of their psyche I guess, trappers go running through the bush when they find an interesting piece of rock or something and they'll grab a chunk and take it home and give it to Dad and if he thought it was interesting enough he'd go out and have a look at it and uh nothing ever mounted to anything we never ever did make a mine anywhere but we were involved with Bert Kobar quite a bit around Herb Lake and …

SJ
Ok, that's very interesting and with prospecting I know that it was predominantly men that did that but with ….Rice she was a prospector.

GL
Yeah, I was gonna mention her, there's some, they weren't as prominent as the men but they did their share too and they often say the only people that ever made any money like at the gold rush were the people that supplied the rubber boots and the shovels, the actual prospectors never made a fortune ya know?