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Prospecting & Detecting

Determining the Amount of Gold in Rich Ores

February 2016 by Chris Ralph

This is just the type of specimen that could have been easily ignored by the old-time miners. It felt a little heavier in my hand than a chunk of quartz of that size ought to have been.

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