Prospecting & Detecting
Fountain of Youth Gold
May 2011 by Tom Leftwich

Sulfides and Intergrain Gold Wire Nuggets
...these nuggets have not traveled far from the lode because the golden wire lattices would have been torn apart or flattened during weathering of rock and deposition by violent stream action.
The Reason We Fight

Determining the Amount of Gold in Rich Ores

Follow Up to "Just One More Time"

Detecting Old Pocket Diggings

An Alaskan in the Lower 48

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