Prospecting & Detecting
Finding Gold in Tailing Piles
December 2014 by Steve Herschbach
Old mine workings and tailing piles can represent opportunities on many levels, from the chance to simply find a nugget on up to the commercial reworking of the old tailings for profit.
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