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<blockquote data-quote="user 4386" data-source="post: 652759" data-attributes="member: 4386"><p>Not necessarily Grubstake (although one might hope near a shaft). But mercury also forms amalgam with copper, lead, zinc, aluminium etc. and was relatively cheap in those days and got splashed around (well under 1c per oz when gold was around $9 per oz). (00 tonnes are thought to have been lost in Victorian streams.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 4386, post: 652759, member: 4386"] Not necessarily Grubstake (although one might hope near a shaft). But mercury also forms amalgam with copper, lead, zinc, aluminium etc. and was relatively cheap in those days and got splashed around (well under 1c per oz when gold was around $9 per oz). (00 tonnes are thought to have been lost in Victorian streams. [/QUOTE]
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