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Over the Divide
January 2023
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Comment period reopened for pygmy owl critical habitat in Arizona
• Limits on wilderness study areas finalized in Utah
• IBLA rules miner cannot set up store processing equipment on claim when no mining is taking place
• New law to protect claims and equipment in Washington State
Placer Gold Deposits of New Mexico
While a large number of locations have yielded some placer gold, most of the state’s placer production has come from a few productive districts.
Melman on Gold & Silver
After six years of primarily sideways action, gold broke decisively to the upside by breaking above strong resistance between $1,350 and $1,400 by soaring to near $1,450 before correcting moderately.
Surface Indications Of Quartz Adularia Epithermal Deposits
I am going to keep to the basics of surface indications and visual clues in the rocks and minerals themselves that help me find gold-bearing veins in this classification of deposits.
Discovery of the Mountain Pass REO Deposit
How does one go about discovering a rare earth oxide (REO) deposit when he is not familiar with the rare and unusual rocks and minerals that are found in such deposits? That was the case at Mountain Pass, California, yet the deposit was eventually discovered and mined.
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Blast From the Past
• Lazy Day Gold
• Getting Skunked, but Having Fun!
• Strike and Dip for the Prospector
• I Said it Once & I'll Say it twice, Record Those Indicators!
• Better Worse: I'd Rather Be On Top! No More Boo-Boo's - Part 2
• Resource Maven Independent Analysis of the Resource Markets
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The Bawl Mill
• The Struggle is Real
• ICMJ Visits Downieville, California
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