@Doomer In Alaska there are places you can pan for gold, whether you find anything or not is up to your luck and skill, irregardless you pay a fee by the day to pan there. They have a similar set up in a opal mine in Arizona, where you pay by the day. In Tennessee you pay for a 1 or 5 gallon bucket of raw mineral that you then shift through to see it there are any gems (amethyst, pyrite, citrine, and ruby) In other words as the owner she should absolutely be taking a percentage of his yields or at the very least charging per day. In fact the original verbal contract they had, had him being paid for his labor and the yields being hers. Yes, she should pay him well, because his labor is worth hundreds of men, but the fact she's due to lose her whole mountain yet not even taking any profit from his work is so stupid I don't how she grew up to this age without choking to death on her own drool. The fricking mouth breathing MORON!.