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Old Miner, New Trick: Gleaning Gold From Wyoming Copper Mine

Using boulder-crushing force and a new finesse in separation techniques, a veteran gold-digger says mine near Cheyenne has over a billion dollars in copper.
Old Miner, New Trick: Gleaning Gold From Wyoming Copper Mine
The CK Gold Project gold mine 20 miles west of Cheyenne, Wyoming, will eventually look like a quarry, U.S. Gold President and CEO George Bee said, but while drawing core samples in 2023-24, it looked like a nondescript slit trench on the prairie. U.S. Gold
John Haughey
John Haughey
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CHEYENNE, Wyo.—George Bee is prospecting for gold in folds of feldspar, granodiorite, and quartz exhumed from faults in the earth’s crust, hundreds of feet below a ridge-rimmed prairie vale on the eastern flanks of the Laramie Range.
He doesn’t need a pickaxe to muscle mineral from stone, or a stream-side sluice to sift river slag to find what he seeks. He doesn’t even need to be at the mine, a nondescript slit-trench gash amid waving buffalograss and sage-crested arroyos, to see its bonanza.
John Haughey
John Haughey
Reporter
John Haughey is an award-winning Epoch Times reporter who covers U.S. elections, U.S. Congress, energy, defense, and infrastructure. Mr. Haughey has more than 45 years of media experience. You can reach John via email at [email protected]
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