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Beach Mining for Gold
March 2010 by Chris Ralph
Commonly these layers contain small particles of gold and platinum, and in places where they are sufficiently concentrated, the metallic particles are abundant enough to be extracted profitably.
California Suction Dredging Update
Another California Assembly member, Jared Huffman, is attempting to ban dredging in the state on a more permanent basis.
Give That Club Claim A Chance
My first trip to the claim was the tip-off that there might be larger gold to be found. I brought my puffer drywasher and my dad to a local prospecting club outing that was held at the claim.Platinum—Group Metals
by Henry E. Hilliard
Excerpted from USGS "1998 Annual Review"
Critical Metals: Antimony
I’ve been taking a look at the mining and uses of a number of critical metals in series of articles, and it’s time to take a look at antimony.
Critical Minerals: Tungsten
Because tungsten minerals are heavy, exploration can be done using stream sediment samples. Prospectors looking for gold have found scheelite or wolframite in their placer concentrates, and in some cases this has led them to make important tungsten finds.
Melman on Gold & Silver
All in all, these spending proposals, combined with those already approved, could bring total spending for the current budget year to around $8 trillion—by far the highest level ever recorded in America’s history.
Company Notes
• Pan American Silver Corp.
• ESG Canada
• Vista Gold Corp.
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The Bawl Mill
• Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Utah Proposes Using Eminent Domain Against Federal Government
• Gold in Alaska
• Mining Trade Group Sues Nevada Over Tax Initiative
• Battle Heats Up Over California Suction Dredging
• China Will Put Rio Tinto Employees on Trial
• Highbanking on the Similkameen River
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Mining Stock Quotes & Mineral and Metal Prices
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Prospecting for Hard Rock Gold
• Dredger Wins Claim Against Fish & Game Director
