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Randsburg district dumps
Mineral locality Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Gold
Crystals and mineralsAlso reported: scheelite.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: BLM Alaska (Public domain), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
Gold and tungsten camp from the 1890s with mineralized dumps around the living ghost town
Historic Rand district described in desert collecting guides.
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
open shafts, arsenic-rich dump material
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