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Prospecting Australia—Part III Anatomy of a Nugget Patch in Western Australia

One of the most memorable nuggets I found in Australia was detected on the very last day that I was out prospecting. I was going along swinging my coil and I came across a blaring loud signal that almost blew my ears off.

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