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Gold in Alaska - Part II

The widespread gold and base metal mineralization supports that many significant lode deposits remain to be discovered.

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The principal gold belt in Vermont extends south from the Canadian border along the east side of the Green Mountains, as far south as the Massachusetts line. The entire region was glaciated during the Great Ice Age and the glaciers contained streaks of finely-divided gold, so some of the gold found in Vermont originated in what is now Canada.

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