Kriashko's Journey to the Gold Rush

In the summer of 2011, a 13-person crew set off in a pair of snow cats from the remote mining town of Anadir into the newly thawed Tundra. The scientists found Kriashko in Moscow; he explained that Razen had indeed hired him to mine for platinum back whenKriashko was in graduate school. In 1979, he was deposited by helicopter at an obscure stream called List Venetovii and spent several days digging through the blue-green clay. No platinum turned up in the several hundred kilograms of clay he panned, but Kriash Ko did find a few shiny little nuggets he couldn't identify. He delivered them to Raz