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The gold discovered at Sutter’s Mill, California, in 1848 sparked the California Gold Ru...

The gold discovered at Sutter’s Mill, California, in 1848 sparked the California Gold Rush. This gold is widely disseminated throughout the granitic rocks of the Sierra Nevada batholith and was concentrated in placer deposits. During the Nevadan orogeny, several other large granitic batholiths were intruded in the Cordillera region of North America. Have there been any gold discoveries associated with these intrusions? Why?

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