California Diamonds

July 1999 by Edgar B. Heylmun, PhD

Siskiyou National Forest Update

July 2002
For the past two years, miners in southwest Oregon have been bombarded by one attack on mining after another.

Ask the Experts

March 2014
Gold out of auqa regia

Legislative and Regulatory Update

June 2011
• More roadblocks to dredging in California
• Two Oregon Sheriffs challenge Forest Service authority
• Gold is money

Picks & Pans: Gold Mining on Joie Osgood Ranch

January 2000
Butte County, California—On January 29, 1978, Peter and I received permission from Joie Osgood to pan and look for gold on her property. The 3800 acre property was located about four miles northeast of Honcut, Butte County, California.

Oldest Journal Contest - The Winners

February 2009
We received entries from readers in fourteen states for our contest to find out who has the oldest surviving copy of the Journal, originally named the California Mining Journal..

Gold in Moffat County, Colorado

March 1999
The area of interest in this article is in eastern Moffat County, located in northwestern Colorado adjacent to the Wyoming line. It is a high, sagebrush prairie which ranges from 6,200 to 7,200 feet in elevation, north and northwest of the county seat of Craig (pop. 8,000).

Ask the Experts

August 2014
Centrifugal bowls versus jigs

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