The mining season in the Porcupine district started early this year.
Teen-age miner Parker Schnabel, whose family’s Big Nugget Mine has been featured on the Discovery Channel series “Gold Rush,” said his crews started in January and cleared about seven miles of Porcupine Road to prepare a new area for mining.
Opening the road that was eight feet deep in snow took about 15 days, Schnabel said. “It was pretty impressive.” His operation had four…
