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Prospecting & Detecting

Hard Rock Prospecting With Rusty

May 2016 by Ron Kliewer

As we talked, Rusty stopped, backed up, bent down and began chipping at some rock in the road. He said he suspected there was a stringer right here that crossed the road.

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