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Or that tantalite, or microlite, both ores of the element Tantalum are worth $$ a pound for the contained tungsten, and thus a 50% ore would be worth $$$$ per ton, and that some ores contain 80% tungsten?

Or that columbite, samarskite, euxenite, or polycrase, all ores of the element Columbium, are now worth $$$$ a pound for the contained Columbium, and thus a 50% ore would be worth $$$$ a ton, and that some ores contain up to 82% Columbium as mined.

Or that tantalite, or microlite, both ores of the element Tantalum, are now worth $$$ a pound for the contained Tantalum, and thus a 50% ore would be worth $$$$$ per ton, and that some ores may contain up to 86% Tantalum.

These are just a few of the 300 or more minerals or ores, which contain one, or more of the 40 elements covered in Duke’s “ Quick Qualitative Analysis.” ( See the complete list elsewhere under this heading.)

Question? How many of these 40 elements are you acquainted with? How many are you now looking for? How many would you be able to recognize and PROVE YOU WERE RIGHT if you found them in that mine, prospect hole, or in those rocks in the hills – are there as many as 10?

What about the other 30? Are they just “overlooked fortunes” as far as you are concerned; just laying there in the hills or in your mine or prospect hole, waiting for some “modern” prospector to come along with the proper knowledge to find them? What are you doing about it? Your success as a prospector of mine owner of tomorrow will depend upon your answer – and what about you today?

In the following pages we will tell you and show you what you CAN DO to better your conditions; what some of theses “overlooked fortunes” are, why overlooked in the past, and how Duke’s “Quick Qualitative Analysis” will show you how to find, identify and thus cash in on them!

A Few “Overlooked Fortunes” You May Be passing Over - And Why!

Hints – Ideas – Suggestions
We will give a few examples of “ Overlooked Fortunes” and the chief reasons why generally overlooked, and offer a few ideas and suggestions, and ask a few question which may recall to your mind certain overlooked fortunes which you have skipped over in the past – and cause you to go back and find them; or offer valuable information which may put you on guard and cause you to find a fortune – which you may have otherwise overlooked.

A Few Chief Causes
Are you still following the old horse-and–buggy days method of trying to identify your rocks or ores by their physical properties, such as specific gravity, hardness, color, etc., as worked out by Dana in 1837, and still used in most present day books on mineralogy? Do you know that the physical properties of minerals as given in books are for pure mineral specimens, and that metallic minerals are seldom if ever found in the pure state in commercial quantities, and thus the physical properties as given in books do not apply? The lack of understanding on this part, and the use of the magnifying glass are, perhaps, the two chief reasons for over-looking more fortunes than all other causes.

Do you know that gold, silver and the platinum minerals, and in rare cases, but seldom in commercial quantities, copper, iron, bismuth, antimony, and mercury are practically the only ones on the 92 elements which ever occur in the metallic state in nature? You never see any metallic lead, tungsten, tin, nickel, cobalt, etc. in any rock or ore with a magnifying glass – simply because they never occur in the metallic state in nature, and thus the only way to find their hidden values is by a chemical test as given in Duke’s “Quick Quantitative Analysis”

Do you know that many valuable ores of vanadium, uranium, cobalt, nickel, bismuth, titanium, and many others, including gold and silver, may look just like common country rock _ showing no mineralization whatever?

Or that certain ores of platinum, palladium, ruthenium, iridium, osmium, nickel, cobalt, tin, arsenic copper, and many others, including gold and silver, may look like common iron pyrite!”

Or that certain ores, such as columbite, samarskite, tantalite, microlite, cobalite, casserite, bismuthine, smalite, pitchblende, wolframite, ferberite, huvnerite, and many others, including gold and silver under certain conditions, all look just like common, black, brown, red, or white iron, which even the best minerologists in the country do not attempt to tell the difference merely by looking at them – only a chemical test will tell?

A Few Examples
Do you know that "black heavy stuff" you are walking over every day and calling "worthless iron" may be one of these "overlooked fortunes?" Are you sure it is not columbite, which looks just like common black iron but is the chief ore of the element Columbium!

Or ferberite, wolframite, or hubnerite, which all look just like common black or brown iron but are all valuable ores of the element Tungsten.

Or pitchblende, which looks lust like black iron but is the chief ore of Uranium. It is the stuff they get Radium from, also the material of the atomic bomb and maybe atomic power of the future, and maybe worth big $$.

Or that tantalite, or microlite, both ores of the element Tantalum are worth $$ a pound for the contained tungsten, and thus a 50% ore would be worth $$$$ per ton, and that some ores contain 80% tungsten?

Or that columbite, samarskite, euxenite, or polycrase, all ores of the element Columbium, are now worth $$$$ a pound for the contained Columbium, and thus a 50% ore would be worth $$$$ a ton, and that some ores contain up to 82% Columbium as mined.

Or that tantalite, or microlite, both ores of the element Tantalum, are now worth $$$ a pound for the contained Tantalum, and thus a 50% ore would be worth $$$$$ per ton, and that some ores may contain up to 86% Tantalum.

These are just a few of the 300 or more minerals or ores, which contain one, or more of the 40 elements covered in Duke’s “ Quick Qualitative Analysis.” ( See the complete list elsewhere under this heading.)

Question? How many of these 40 elements are you acquainted with? How many are you now looking for? How many would you be able to recognize and PROVE YOU WERE RIGHT if you found them in that mine, prospect hole, or in those rocks in the hills – are there as many as 10?

What about the other 30? Are they just “overlooked fortunes” as far as you are concerned; just laying there in the hills or in your mine or prospect hole, waiting for some “modern” prospector to come along with the proper knowledge to find them? What are you doing about it? Your success as a prospector of mine owner of tomorrow will depend upon your answer – and what about you today?

In the following pages we will tell you and show you what you CAN DO to better your conditions; what some of theses “overlooked fortunes” are, why overlooked in the past, and how Duke’s “Quick Qualitative Analysis” will show you how to find, identify and thus cash in on them! from, also the material of the atomic bomb and maybe atomic power of the future, and maybe worth big $$.

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