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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;quick dog, post: 92387, member: 4093&quot;]That&#039;s nothing.&nbsp; The Romans went into northwestern Spain where there were small placer gold deposits around a mountain.&nbsp; They enlisted slave labor, then excavated miles of underground tunnels throughout the mountain.&nbsp; They then constructed an aquaduct and brought water in from a great distance.&nbsp; They collected water in a reservoir, then released all the water at once through the complex system of underground tunnels.&nbsp; The water washed through the mountain, basically knocked it down, and washed out a lot of placer gold.&nbsp; The Romans then picked up the gold which washed out and collected in natural riffles on the ground.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was an amazing engineering feat, and apparently it worked.&nbsp; The Romans were able to recover a large volume of placer gold from a large low-grade deposit by a complex method, relying upon slave labor and focused hydraulic action.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, I suppose People&#039;s Republic of China may be the best modern analog.&nbsp; The commies have had immense commercial success selling America and western Europe cheap goods manufactured by slave labor.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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