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_3147064.JPG - These gravels produced about 500,000 oz of gold dust along a 9 mile stretch of the Merced River. Was the environmental cost worth it? Probably not, but the gravels do start to tell a story of a convergent oceanic-continental boundary. We would piece the rest of the story together throughout the afternoon.

These gravels produced about 500,000 oz of gold dust along a 9 mile stretch of the Merced River. Was the environmental cost worth it? Probably not, but the gravels do start to tell a story of a convergent oceanic-continental boundary. We would piece the rest of the story together throughout the afternoon.

Date: 3/14/09 9:20 AM | Keywords: dredge tailings Merced Falls MJC Geology southern motherlode

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