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Randsburg district dumps

Mineral locality Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

GoldGold
Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also 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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