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A Profitable Approach—Financing Mineral Exploration With Oil & Gas Projects
January 2006 by Leonard Melman
Not too many years ago, junior mining companies most frequently limited their activities to exploring and pre-developing their mining properties.
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Shirttail Creek
December 2009
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.
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.
The Lucky Shot Mine
February 2005
I hobbled around on the broken up, sorted rock pile. Watching where I stepped, I kept my eye open for quartz with a gray-blue color imbedded throughout the samples I picked up.
I hobbled around on the broken up, sorted rock pile. Watching where I stepped, I kept my eye open for quartz with a gray-blue color imbedded throughout the samples I picked up.
North Korea Seeks Outside Help to Modernize Mining
March 2002
Eager to earn hard currency, isolated North Korea is trying to modernize its decrepit mining industry with foreign help.
Eager to earn hard currency, isolated North Korea is trying to modernize its decrepit mining industry with foreign help.
USFS Criticized for Renting Chopper in Nevada Dispute
November 2003
The Forest Service is being criticized for spending $15,000 to rent a helicopter to empty sewage from a remote outhouse in northeast Nevada, work a citizens group had volunteered to do for free by using a closed forest road that the group wants reopened.
The Forest Service is being criticized for spending $15,000 to rent a helicopter to empty sewage from a remote outhouse in northeast Nevada, work a citizens group had volunteered to do for free by using a closed forest road that the group wants reopened.
Ask the Experts: Something for everyone...
August 2012
Q: Can you suggest some family and dog friendly vacation spots in California where I can also do some sniping?
Q: Can you suggest some family and dog friendly vacation spots in California where I can also do some sniping?
A Data Miner Builds A Power Sluice
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Data mining involves processing huge amounts of digital information to find hidden patterns and financial relationships. To executives, the findings are like gold, but on the weekends, I prefer seeing the real thing in the bottom of my pan.
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