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Company Looks at Restarting Sunshine Mine
July 2002 by Associated Press
The lights are on again in the Sunshine silver mine as a New Orleans company investigates whether it is profitable to buy the operation.Additional articles that might interest you...
Ask the Experts - proper mining claim procedures
April 2013
Q: Can you offer any information on proper mining claim procedures?
Q: Can you offer any information on proper mining claim procedures?
The Oretron
November 2000
Most ore bodies generate a voltage, giving the prospector another valuable method of tracing and locating these hidden minerals. With the Oretron, one can sense and measure these voltages along the ground surface...
Most ore bodies generate a voltage, giving the prospector another valuable method of tracing and locating these hidden minerals. With the Oretron, one can sense and measure these voltages along the ground surface...
Silver Hill, North Carolina
November 2000
To the writer's knowledge, this was the first discovery of silver and lead in North Carolina and perhaps one of the first official discoveries of silver east of the Mississippi River.
To the writer's knowledge, this was the first discovery of silver and lead in North Carolina and perhaps one of the first official discoveries of silver east of the Mississippi River.
Prospecting Old Tertiary Channels
September 2010
The potential exists for small-scale placer mining in these pits using a trommel and sluice box or other similar types of equipment.
The potential exists for small-scale placer mining in these pits using a trommel and sluice box or other similar types of equipment.
Ask the Experts
February 2015
• Is this old mining story too good to be true?
• Is this old mining story too good to be true?
Liberty and the Phoenix Mine
June 2013
Liberty, Washington is located in the mountains near Yakima and Ellensburg. There is nothing much in Liberty except for about 20 houses on patented mining claims and a lot of dry holes.
Liberty, Washington is located in the mountains near Yakima and Ellensburg. There is nothing much in Liberty except for about 20 houses on patented mining claims and a lot of dry holes.
Picks & Pans: Mining Tungsten Ore—A Case History
May 2002
In 1977, when the price of tungsten hit one of its highs, three of us formed U.S. Western Mines to look for scheelite, the mineral ore of tungsten. Union Carbide Corporation was purchasing raw tungsten ore at...
In 1977, when the price of tungsten hit one of its highs, three of us formed U.S. Western Mines to look for scheelite, the mineral ore of tungsten. Union Carbide Corporation was purchasing raw tungsten ore at...
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