Video: Modern day gold rush has workers flocking to Nev.
Sunday, April 22, 2012 - 18:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Employing more than 12,000 workers with an average individual salary of about $80,000, Nevada's mining industry is in the middle of a gold rush, with prospectors pouring in from all over the country. Jeff Glor reports.
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