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A FEW EXAMPLES from J.S Wisdom - You Can Smelt Too

Do you know that " black heavy stuff" you are walking over every day and calling "worthless iron" may be one of these " Overlooked Fortunes"? Are you sure it is not columbite, the chief ore of the ele

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The Island

The Island.

Well, this story doesn't have anything to do with a traditional island, at least not in the sense of one with a sandy beach fringed by palm trees surrounded by ocean. This story of the island is about a flooded section of bedrock that wa

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Ancient Troughs:

The day was warm, but the sizzling, dog-days of summer were long gone. It had taken until around eleven in the morning to get rid of the chill in the shade of the pine-covered slopes. The butterflies were long gone, the songbirds too, and only a sol

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Black Bedrock Gold

Black Bedrock Gold

 

This past season, I had the opportunity to work what I can only describe as an old placer cut. It wasn’t anywhere near the size of a regular placer pit, and the cut itself was only about fifteen feet deep, but however they’d figu

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