Chinese Camp, California and the Tong War of 1856

February 2000 by Richard H. Peterson, PhD

Aussie Gold—A Look at New South Wales

January 2002
New South Wales is similar to Queensland. The Great Dividing Range runs close to the coast with large forests on the coastal plain. Inland from the mountains are vast grasslands with occasional forests extending to arid plains and desert.

Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices

January 2005

Confluence Placers

June 2013
Confluences of placer streams are well known as concentration sites for heavy minerals. The basic reason is that...

Gold in Suriname

June 2002
Suriname is a former Dutch colony on the north coast of South America, with an area of 63,000 square miles and a population of 450,000. Indians inhabited the region when Spaniards first sailed the coast in 1499.

Ask the Experts

February 2014
Marketing other minerals recovered while gold mining

How PGMs Affect Assay Beads

September 2001
Most fire assayers are trained to observe the cupelled beads very carefully, noting any discoloring or surface roughness that might indicate that one or more of the platinum group metals (PGMs) are present. The “clues and tests” I have included in this article stem from several sources, including my 35 years of experience performing torch assays...

Guest Editorial—Unreasonable Interpretations

June 2000
Throughout the colorful history of mining, reviews of old documents and stories have led to new mineral discoveries.

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