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November 2015 by Chris Ralph

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May 2016

• Any suggestions about gold panning in Oregon?

Ask the Experts - Old workings & tailings: What are my options?

February 2012
Q: ...It’s a 2,000-acre property that was mined 100 years ago, still has the old workings, tailings, etc. I am looking to recover gold from the old waste/tailings... plus possibly strip mine some of it. What are my options?

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December 2013
Why are there no maps of the so-called mining districts?

Ask the Experts - ...Worth further investigation?

February 2012
Q: About 158,000 tons of ore is estimated to remain on the property. Worth further investigation?

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September 2015
Ore processing in California?

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.

Ask the Experts - processing plants that can extract rare earth metals

April 2013
Q: Do you know of any processing plants that can extract rare earth metals?

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