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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;desertgem, post: 2028356, member: 15199&quot;]In earlier times, miners could claim an area for underground resources by surrounding an area with stakes and a written claim on the stake. Today tags are very formalized. The Tag seems to read&nbsp; Gold...Discovered..C???????...1848. </p><p><br /></p><p>Would be very hard to authenticate I would think. In recent years, diamonds miner in Canada used helicopters and devices to embed stakes into the ground from the air when it was too difficult to do it on ground, which I suspect was not entirely following the rules. Looks hand made and nail hole looks too round for the period. But just perception.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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