History & Geology
Gold in Beatty, Nevada
September 2013 by C.A. "Charlie" Cook
In this case, signs of gold were found at the bottom of the alluvial and then traced in a triangle up the face of the mountain until they stopped—that is where the digging began.Epithermal Gold and Silver Deposits
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