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But always there was the lure of the Big Strike, the lode of almost-pure metal that could bring a fortune back to the man who found it. A few such strikes had been made. Forty years before a single claim had brought its owner seventeen million dollars in two years. A dozen other men had stumbled onto fortunes in the Belt ... but such metal-rich fragments were grains of sand in a mighty river.
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