Garrett Electronics - trusted by real miners & prospectors!

Magazine

All Articles

Ask The Experts—Columbium/Niobium

A: Niobium is a rare and strategically important metallic element used in a number of specialized high tech applications. The pure metal is a shiny grey color, but it takes on a bluish tinge...

Online access required. Please .

Add a Comment

Additional articles that might interest you...

Melman on Gold & Silver


All we can say is “Welcome to 2012,” and if the first part of January is any indication, it is going to be quite a year on many fronts from the ongoing international financial crisis to the progress of a presidential election set to end this coming November.

Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices


Mineralized Faults and Contacts in the Search for Gold


Fault zones and rock contacts are important because the vast majority of gold and silver deposits, as well as those of many other metals, are formed by hot, mineralized water solutions.

San Francisco Mint and US Gold Reserves


In 1717, Sir Isaac Newton, Master of the British Mint, established a fixed price for gold that was equivalent to around US$20.00 per ounce. This price was for bullion gold, refined to a purity of twenty-two karats (.917 fine).

Huge California Nugget A Hoax


Sanders claimed he used ground-penetrating radar to survey his private property in Nevada County, California, and uncovered the chunk of gold with a backhoe when he was following up on one of the anomalies found by the radar.

The Bawl Mill


• Man offers $300, four cows for hired killing
• Tax Assessor suspended for "sexual favors"
• Divine Intervention
• Big is beautiful

Ask the Experts


Treating ore with a plasma torch or shock waves?

Subscription Required:
The Bawl Mill   • Legislative and Regulatory Update   • Ask The Experts—How do I work this large quartz vein?   • Cashing In Your Gold: Working With A Refiner   • Our Readers Say   • Major Miners Go on Buying Spree   • The Big Gold Strike   • Gold Deposits Of South Carolina   • Investing In Junior Mining Stocks   • Bella's Birthday Nugget   • Hidden Treasure Mine—Foresthill Divide, California   • Jerritt Canyon Mine Lays Off 400   • Teenager Finds Large Nugget   • Winnemucca Rising While Other Towns Falter   • Melman on Gold & Silver   • Mining Stock Quotes   • Utah Mining History Being Erased

Free:

Advertisements

Precious Metals Recovery plants and equipment
Fighting to keep public lands open to the public
Specializing in the processing of precious metal ores!
Watch prospecting shows on your computer right now
Free Online Sample Issue