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Gold Miners Become Tungsten Miners
February 2001 by Sam E. Phifer, P.G.
The story begins in the early 1940s in Vance County, North Carolina, on a farm that belonged to the Hamme family. During spring plowing in 1942, one of the brothers accidentally plowed up an odd looking rock and took it home to show his younger brother who was studying geology at Duke University.The Bawl Mill
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MMAC & PLP Update
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