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Dunkwa-on-Offin placer reaches

Gold ground Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

GoldGold

Also reported: black sands.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: BLM Alaska (Public domain).

Why this spot

Dredged and hand-worked placer gold along the Offin River since the early colonial period

Documented dredging field in Ghana mining records.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

deep muddy pits, river dredge traffic

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