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2006 US Gold Panning Championships
July 2006 by Staff
This year’s US Gold Panning Championships were held in Gold Bug Park, in Placerville, California. The competition site was set in the park’s pavilion among the trees and adjacent to the stream that runs through the park.Looking Back
Excerpts from California Mining Journal, our original title, published 50 years ago this month.
The Bawl Mill
• Drug smuggling tunnels filled with environmental delays and red tape
• Did we make the list?
• A whopper of an error
Melman on Gold & Silver
I believe this is a powder-keg waiting to explode down the road—with potentially devastating effects on society—but positive implications for gold and silver.
Platinum Claims on Heines Creek
There aren’t too many workable placer deposits of platinum in the world today. Most of the platinum found is in hardrock lodes, usually mixed in the gold, silver or copper outcrops.
Tucson Mountain Chaos
The Tucson Mountains are immediately west of Tucson, in southern Arizona, and include residential areas of the city. The highest peak, Wasson (Amole) Peak, reaches 4,687 feet. It is part of the great Basin-Range physiographic province, characterized by fault-block mountain ranges separated by broad desert valleys.
Dawson City and the World Gold Panning Championships
Each year the World Gold Panning Association (WGPA) holds a world championship in one of the twenty countries that are members. The decision as to where to hold each championship involves many factors...
Shirttail Creek
Shirttail was worked heavily in the old mining years, but they didn’t clean it out. Present day prospectors and dredgers have done well, especially as Shirttail gets closer to the North Fork of the American.
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The Bawl Mill
• Detecting at Old Hydraulic Mines
• Montana Postpones Mining Rule
• Sydney Resource Corp. Ventures into Canada and Mexico
• The Treasure Detective
• The Small Hardrock Mill—Part I
• The Iditarod-Innoko Goldfields
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Agnico-Eagle to Open Gold Mine in Finland
