Photographer’s Note
The Gilbert River, south of Quebec city, at St-Simon-les-mines. The biggest gold nugget ever found in the Quebec province is coming from this river, the McDonald nugget weight 1.28 kilograms.
About 4 tons of the precious metal been recorvered in placers from about 1850 to today.
Here, a prospector and a geologist talking about the source of the nuggets.
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- Copyright: Francois Durette (frank007) (26)
- Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2006-09-08
- Categories: Nature
- Exposure: f/5.6, 1/160 seconds
- More Photo Info: view
- Photo Version: Original Version
- Date Submitted: 2007-03-16 15:01
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