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Detector Brings New Life to An Old Lode Mine

…it was immediately evident the previous owner had not been using a detector. During just a few months of working the dumps part-time, he recovered gold in quartz specimens valued in excess of $40,000.

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Twenty Minutes on a Five-inch Dredge


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