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China Will Put Rio Tinto Employees on Trial
March 2010 by Associated Press
The Australian government confirmed it was notified that a Shanghai court will try the four Rio employees including an Australian national.Additional articles that might interest you...
The Bawl Mill
March 2006
• Why rent when you can own?
• County taxed by tax error
• Military policy wins out over common sense
• Why rent when you can own?
• County taxed by tax error
• Military policy wins out over common sense
Melman on Gold & Silver (2008 Year in Review)
December 2008
Our December issue is when we take a look backward at the year nearing completion, and this year is no exception. When we do look backward over the past eleven months, all we can say is, “What a year this has been!” And that isn’t meant in a positive...

Hidden Treasure Mine—Foresthill Divide, California
September 2008
One of the greatest and richest underground placer mines of California was the Hidden Treasure Mine of Placer County.

Heavy Sands Mining
February 2013
Lately my mind has been involved with group 4 of the transition elements, namely titanium, zirconium, and hafnium. They all have similar chemical properties. Of greatest interest to economic geologists and miners is that these valuable elements often occur together in sands.
Lately my mind has been involved with group 4 of the transition elements, namely titanium, zirconium, and hafnium. They all have similar chemical properties. Of greatest interest to economic geologists and miners is that these valuable elements often occur together in sands.
Melman on Gold & Silver
March 2003
As the wags have been putting it recently, it looks like the United States is caught between “Iraq and a hard place.” Every day for the past month we have read headlines about the likelihood of immediate war, and, based on those headlines, gold, petroleum and the financial markets have gone off on their tangents.
As the wags have been putting it recently, it looks like the United States is caught between “Iraq and a hard place.” Every day for the past month we have read headlines about the likelihood of immediate war, and, based on those headlines, gold, petroleum and the financial markets have gone off on their tangents.
More on Meteorites
April 2002
...how many of us have knowingly found or bought a meteorite—a small to large mass of stone or metal; a meteor that has survived not only a space voyage of millions of years, but also the impact of striking the earth?

Mining Industry Worried about Democrat-Controlled Congress
January 2007
The new Democrat-controlled Congress will be largely hostile to the US mining industry on everything from taxes to environmental regulation, a top industry lobbyist warned.
The new Democrat-controlled Congress will be largely hostile to the US mining industry on everything from taxes to environmental regulation, a top industry lobbyist warned.
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