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Solar-Powered Placer Sampling Equipment
December 2002 by Steve Hicks
One hundred and seven years ago the world’s first electric-powered bucket line dredge started to work in Montana. This summer, Montana likely saw its first solar-powered Denver Gold Saver put to work.
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Freegold Ventures' Golden Summit Project
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Massive area-wide forest fires left the air near Fairbanks, Alaska looking like a London fog and smelling like the residue of a fireplace late this August as I left the airport on a recent visit to Freegold Ventures Ltd.
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The Lucky Shot Mine
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I hobbled around on the broken up, sorted rock pile. Watching where I stepped, I kept my eye open for quartz with a gray-blue color imbedded throughout the samples I picked up.
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Gold Dredging on Oregon's South Umpqua
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Familiarizing oneself with an unfamiliar part of the country is often a requirement of successful gold prospecting. In the pursuit of gold, it may become necessary for a prospector to branch out into new hunting grounds.
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• Picks & Pans: Gold and Bears
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• Dectecting Alaskan Gold Nuggets
• The Ancient History of Gold
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