Ask the Experts—Why doesn't the 1872 Mining Law apply to all 50 states?

May 2008 by Chris Ralph

Melman on Gold & Silver

June 2002
We are now seeing declines in gold followed quickly by rallies to new relative highs while powerful stock market rallies are met with aggressive new selling. Whether this pattern will continue into the future is debatable, but it certainly is a welcome background for the much-battered world of precious metals investing.

Making A Big Discovery

January 2019

We sent them a lot of information, including my presentation about the area and its potential. We were excited to learn a couple weeks later that the company was interested in the property.

California State Gold Panning Championships

October 2009
It took two days to determine the best of the best, and it was a fight to the end.

Ask The Experts - When do I use detector discrimination?

June 2022

The Bawl Mill

April 2013
• By the numbers
• Apparently Americans deserve more of the same...

Small-Scale Hard Rock Mining With Water Recycling

March 2015
Once I have established the presence of gold in the sample, I collect five-gallon bucket quantities of the rock material for processing back at my shop.

The Lost Silver Triangle of the Sierra Madre—Part I

April 2008
The North American continent harbors a vast mountain fastness that few Anglo-Americans have seen—an awesome land cut by perpendicular canyons and towering peaks, a forbidding wilderness virtually unchanged...

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