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The tailrace of the nearly finished sawmill at Coloma on the South Fork of the American River, January 1848: a raw-cut wooden channel running with shallow snowmelt water, pine-forested foothills rising behind, the unfinished mill's timber frame standing a short way upstream. Marshall kneels directly over the anvil rock, the flake pinned under his raised hammer stone. the gold flakes rest in his open palm beside the same rock he strikes. the tailrace channel runs past the rock and continues to the sawmill frame upstream. Each gold flake is about the size of a wheat grain resting in his open palm, and the anvil rock beneath his hammer is roughly the size of a large pony's head. 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