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Q: About 158,000 tons of ore is estimated to remain on the property. Worth further investigation?

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Q: Is there an Internet source ... that one can access to review which claims and at which location are the claims that BLM administrators close each year?

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Q: I have a question/request regarding some black sand left from my Dad’s prospecting days.

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February 2013
Q: What should be considered in a Joint Venture on a gold claim?

The Portable XRF Gun

November 2012
While there is no metal detector that will see only gold, there is a device that can reliably distinguish gold from lead, copper, iron or other metals. It is an X-Ray fluorescence tester, sometimes called an XRF gun.

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