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Charcoal Crucible Recipe
May 2001 by Charles L. Butler
...using charcoal briquettes (and no starter fluid) and a few other easily attainable ingredients.The Bawl Mill
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• A cozy bear prevents miners from doing research. Well, sort of...
Detecting Old Pocket Diggings

Speed Prospecting for Hard Rock Gold
An online video gave me some ideas, and with a lot of trial and error I developed a reliable method of panning free gold particles down below 35 microns quickly and easily.
Ask The Experts - Need advice on melting gold
Gold in Unlikely Places—And 'Eating Crow'
The red dot on the diagram points out where the gravels there were also carrying, but not as much color. The gold was sparse below the point indicated.
Heavy Glacial Rocks and Gold in the Midwest

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