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Gold, seeking the center of the earth

Gold, seeking the center of the earth

We keeps our speed to twenty miles per hour or so as we drive up Dun Glen Canyon Road, a dirt road barely two cars wide that wends some nine miles northeast from where we left the 80. A huge slash of yellow dust boils in our wake, coating the entire rear windshield and rendering the rearview mirror useless. I glance down at the directions on my phone. Dun Glen—what’s left of it, anyway—is three miles, twelve minutes away.

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