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The Silver Islet Mountains of Utah

January 2014 by Alan J. Chenworth

I set up my dry washer on the north side of the cut and sampled the bed rock and dumps around me. As I was only sampling, I ran for 20-30 minutes, shoveling from a variety of areas.

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