Prospecting & Detecting
Detecting Alluvial Bench Deposits
February 2017 by Reese Townes
The same questions you ask yourself about gold trapping features in the present stream can be applied to the benches above the stream. Just imagine the stream at a much earlier time, before it cut its way down to the present level…
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