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Picks & Pans: George Duffy Jr.—Pocket Miner Extraordinaire

During the Miocene and Pliocene mid-Tertiary Epochs, the Great Basin, Mojave, and Sonoran deserts within parts of California, Nevada, and Arizona became the source—the genesis—of ubiquitous epithermal “precious metal” fissure-gold veins associated with extensive acidic volcanic lava flows that blanketed much of the Cordillera during this time.

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Melman on Gold & Silver


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Fraser Institute Survey Results Rank Best (and Worst) Mining Locales


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