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Prospecting & Detecting

Mining for Gemstones and Mineral Specimens

August 2013 by Jim Clanin

It is better in a gem and mineral mining operation that the driller, blaster and mucker be the same person in order to be able to predict placement of the desired mineral enriched pockets.

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