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Picks & Pans: Dredging Costa Rica
October 2001 by A.K. Williams
My interest in gold mining began with a few friends who, knowing that I was a chemist by trade (never mind that I am a biochemist), interrogated me every day at the gringo coffee shop in San Jose, Costa Rica.
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