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gold is where you find it

Meaningless tautologies are no substitute for competant exploration geologists, proper sampling and analysis, feasibility studies that detail benefication circuits and % recovery, overburden issues, cutoff grades, the killer... remediation and compliance with environmental laws, and the costs of all of the above.

[JimSEA]

The intent of the “meaningless tautology” is to indicate that there are numerous venues in which gold can be found and extracted. Even taking the gold out of seawater has been considered. The Carlin trend was largely unknown in the 1950s, the gold mines of the future are percolating in the active volcanics of the Cascades.