Aerial Photos

March 2002 by Edgar B. Heylmun, PhD

Senator Warns Against Proposal to Sell Some IMF Gold

April 1999
A proposal to sell some of the International Monetary Fund's vast gold reserves would be disastrous for Nevada's mining industry as well as the emerging countries the IMF is trying to help, Sen. Richard Bryan said March 4.

MMAC & PLP Update

May 2016

PLP had been attempting to raise funds to hire a lobbyist. The excessive cost made it prohibitive, so Clark and Joe packed up their bags and headed off to make this trip themselves.

Sunshine and Gold

January 2016

His eyes were gleaming and he was smiling as he dropped his first piece of gold into my hand. It was a small, earring-size nugget, and he had found it almost immediately.

Zeballos Gold Camp, British Columbia

June 2004
The mining and logging camp of Zeballos (pop. 272) is located on an arm of Esperanza Inlet, on the southwest side of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Vancouver Island is 301 miles, by road, and reaches elevations as high as 7,249 feet.

USGS Reports Increase of Imported Minerals

September 2001
Since 1993, US reliance on imports of raw and processed materials of mineral origin has increased more than seven fold.

The Bawl Mill

November 2013
• There's a fungus among us
• Taxpayers crash land in Arizona
• "What did you get arrested for?"

Our Readers Say

August 2000
• "I would like to be included..."
• "No claim in the world can be economically exploited without mechanical means."

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