California's Rich Pocket Mines

February 2010 by Chris Ralph

Picks & Pans: Dredging After The Flood

March 2004
It was dredging season, 1997, after the catastrophic flood had hit us in January—a flood that took out bridges, roadways, undermined the railroad tracks in several places, and isolated us in the town of Quincy, California, for a week. The fog was so thick that planes couldn’t even land at the airport.

Guest Editorial—California "Special" Dredge Permits in Jeopardy

December 1999
by Dennis J. Raff
Executive Director,
Horseshoe Bar Action & Research (HBAR)

Ask the Experts - processing plants that can extract rare earth metals

April 2013
Q: Do you know of any processing plants that can extract rare earth metals?

MMAC & PLP Update

July 2016
…what I’d like to focus on in this update is the assistance they provided to a suction gold dredger in Idaho being harassed by an environmental group.

Ask The Experts - How do I best recover gold in pyrite?

November 2017

The Fairbanks Goldfields

August 2006
It was once said that the Fairbanks Mining District would probably not be much of a producer. The impact of this goldfield on the mining world of the north did not start with a bang. Rather, the participants of this gold rush more or less...

The Big Gold Strike

September 2008
Jack had been taking a break while Roy was dredging and it was time for Jack to take over. He grabbed his hookah and weight belt, slipped underwater and headed for Roy’s location.

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