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Article: Let's get it right: pockets of gold.(mining gold)
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- Rocks & Minerals
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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When one sees dazzling dendritic arrays of crystalline gold such as that pictured here. it is tempting to imagine open cavities in the earth filled with breathtakingly beautiful similar crystallizations. Certainly this would be a sight that would make Midas drool, if it were actually true. Often in the mineral world one sees the tailored products of what nature can produce without any understanding of the effort that was expended in the recovery and preparation of such specimens: there is usually a huge amount of work involved in getting specimens ready for the marketplace. Although there are many fine mineral specimens that come out of the ground requiring little or no ...
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