BC Premier Heralds "Golden Decade" in Forestry and Mining

February 2005 by Associated Press

From the Editor

January 2004
There are several news items of interest here at ICMJ’s Prospecting and Mining Journal.

Legislative and Regulatory Update

April 2004
• Important court decisions that affect miners
• Move to repeal I-137
• Comments needed tin southern California

Mannequins Bring "Life" to Mining Museum

July 2000
Mining is coming back to Leadville, at least in spirit.

More Small-Scale Miners Attracted by Gold Prices

July 2007
With gold hovering above $650 an ounce, interest in panning and prospecting for the pricey precious metal in northern Idaho’s icy streams and on its rugged mountainsides has enjoyed a mini-boom.

Double-D Coils and Their Place in the Goldfields

December 2009
While gold nugget detecting with a pulse induction machine, most people will be swinging a mono search coil and will have their machine set in all-metal mode. However, the newer pulse induction machines can and will discriminate iron very effectively...

A Modern Day Prospector’s Story

March 2008
My first encounter with rocks and minerals started as a young child in the company of my siblings investigating the rocky mounds placed around the Australian coastline to help prevent erosion just north of Brisbane...

Basic Geology for the Independent Miner—Part I Recognizing and Understanding Minerals

January 2006
Many individual prospectors would like to know a little more about the geology of gold deposits. There is no doubt that in the final analysis, no matter how well you operate your equipment, unless you can find the places where gold is...

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