Looking Back

May 2002 by Staff

Legislative and Regulatory Update

December 2021

• Big banks penalized for rigging gold price
• Mining royalties excluded from reconciliation bill

New Study of the Formation of Nuggets—Part II

January 2008
Last month we took a look at the origins of coarse gold nuggets and the results of some new science about how they form. This new information pointed out that many nuggets once thought to be of secondary origin are formed under hot conditions...

The Bawl Mill

September 1999
• So much for privacy in the great outdoors...
• It's smoky in the Smoky Mountains...
• A tale of two or three populations...
• That retirement nest egg may need to be grade A extra large...

Discovering Nugget Hollow

October 2023

When Gold Moves, Placers Form

July 2010
What it takes to move gold is turbulent, fast-moving water. Normally the water is heavy with clay and all sorts of sentiments that have been ripped up from the bed of the river or carried down from the tributaries above.

Ask The Experts - Is this non-toxic leaching system for real?

June 2021

Picks & Pans: Family's Identity Forged Working Nevada's Gold

April 2004
My mother stands in the desert, a hot wind kicking up puffs in the sand around her feet. She’s staring hard at the rusted buckets, weathered boards and mine shafts scattered throughout the sagebrush, concentrating, and I can tell she’s not really here. Not here now, at least. She is here 65 years ago. And this is not a long-abandoned ghost town at the end of a dirt road in one of Nevada’s endless stretches of nowhere.

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