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April 2014 by Chris Ralph

The Portable XRF Gun

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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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Q: What is available to a small prospector? How does one prospect (drill) into the walls of an old hard rock mine to see what is 10 feet beyond...

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Market for scheelite concentrates?

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Replacing cloth on a drywasher

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Gold in clastic black shale

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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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