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Ask The Experts - Is there a Forest Service camping limit for mining claims?
April 2019 by Scott Harn
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How do I set up a small placer operation?
The Portable XRF Gun
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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