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I recently discovered the richest gold deposit of my prospecting career, but what made this discovery so unique was the size of the gold found. Half ounce chunks of alluvial gold nuggets. It's taken me years to unlock a location like this, but it turns out I wasn't the first one on the scene, perhaps in modern times but after finding an alluvial drift mine on the very same corner that I'd found ounces of gold it became apparent that the miners of old had been there and got me thinking more serio