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Small-Scale Mining, Milling and Recovery
December 2009 by Bill McCuskey
In 1997, I had been working a hard rock claim in Lone Valley, Nevada with two partners. It was a small seam about one to two inches wide that had free gold up to 9 ounces per ton.
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