About 130 grains of gold (8.8 grams) from one of the Cromwell test pits, shown beside a millimetre measure. Seven test pits were bored along Melmore Terrace, and 10 bulk samples were taken from the riverbank slope after a bulldozer had cut into it.
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Press, 19 December 1986, Page 21
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44About 130 grains of gold (8.8 grams) from one of the Cromwell test pits, shown beside a millimetre measure. Seven test pits were bored along Melmore Terrace, and 10 bulk samples were taken from the riverbank slope after a bulldozer had cut into it. Press, 19 December 1986, Page 21
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