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Natural Crystalline Gold
July 2008 by Chris Ralph
The beauty of natural gold is widely appreciated by both prospectors and mineral collectors, but the pinnacle of beautiful natural gold specimens are the spectacular crystalline formations.
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Greed nearly starved Greece's legendary gold-transforming King Midas to death—but still they haven't learned.
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Major environmental organizations such as the Nature Conservancy are working closely with the federal government to buy large tracts of private land, frequently at the expense of private property owners’ rights.
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Gold in the Philippines
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The Philippine archipelago, with over 7,000 islands that stretch for 1,100 miles north-south, was settled by Malaysians several thousand years ago. Ferdinand Magellan landed and was killed there in 1521. Spaniards took over the islands in 1571, and founded Manila, which is located on a large natural harbor. After the Spanish-American war in 1898, the United States took over the Philippines, and found itself in a brutal 6-year war before gaining control of all of the islands.
Gold in the Slate Creek Basin
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In some areas these channels were thousands of feet wide, and just figuring out where you are in some of these diggings is a challenge.
In some areas these channels were thousands of feet wide, and just figuring out where you are in some of these diggings is a challenge.
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