Prospecting & Detecting
Diamond Prospecting in Indiana
January 2015 by Alex Dolbeare
My first personal experience with placer diamonds was on a gold prospecting trip in Indiana about 8 years ago, when a fellow prospector was cleaning his gold concentrates.
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