A sample of gold ore from Charleston, New Zealand, where prospectors in the 1860s mined into the old beach sand. This unique deposit has fine particle
A sample of gold ore from Charleston, New Zealand, where prospectors in the 1860s mined into the old beach sand. This unique deposit has fine particles of gold cemented into an iron-rich strata of sand.
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