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Barney’s Canyon Mine, Barney’s Canyon, Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
This is a SWUV image of a specimen from a short-lived, low-grade gold mine kept purely for its novelty value as a personally-collected grad school souvenir, but that later caught me by surprise. Nearly 30 years after collecting it, I ran a short wave UV lamp over the flat where it was stored and it jumped out with an extremely strong response. ...
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