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Considering potential resources left in waste dumps after gold placer mining and based on the analysis of waste dump samples taken in two large gold placer mines, the article illustrates renewability of the resources left in waste dumps of placers under effect of natural processes (low-temperature, gravity water flow, suffosion, etc.).
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Original Russian Text © V.S. Litvintsev, 2013, published in Fiziko-Tekhnicheskie Problemy Razrabotki Poleznykh Iskopaemykh, 2013, No. 1, pp. 118–126.
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Litvintsev, V.S. Resource potential of placer mining waste. J Min Sci 49, 99–105 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062739149010127
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