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Namosi copper prospect

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Nails and fittingsNails and fittings
Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals
GoldGold

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0), BLM Alaska (Public domain).

Why this spot

Porphyry copper-gold valleys inland from Suva drilled for decades but never mined

Documented in Pacific porphyry exploration literature.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

rainforest terrain

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