Company Notes

June 2004 by Stan D'Orio

Underground Mining: Stoping Methods

October 2016
In an old mine that does not have stopes, you know the old miners did not take much if any ore out of that excavation. On the other hand, if you see large stopes within the mine you know that it is these places where the miners found profitable ore deposits within the vein.

Collector Reaches New Lows to Find Bottles

February 2000
Not everyone would admit to digging through old outhouse pits, but George Piasecki says it's all part of the game for a bottle collector.

Melman on Gold & Silver

July 2012
On a personal level, I have been part of the business, brokerage and financial columnist worlds for 45 years, since the mid-1960s, and in all those years, I have never seen a collection of negative news items similar to what has been published during the past month. In short, taken together they may very well be describing the end of the economic world systems as we know them.

Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices

August 2002

Prospecting for Silver With a Geiger Counter

January 2001
Light-colored volcanic tuff or tuffaceous sandstone often contains small amounts of uranium, enough to be detected with a sensitive radiation detector. Sometimes, the mass effect of the radiation is substantial.

Legislative and Regulatory Update

May 2006
• Original Sixteen to One cleared
• Another court case settled

Pullin' the Pin

November 1999
I first saw Pioche, Nevada while hitch-hiking into town in an old Ford with three good tires and one wheel hammered to an ugly steel disc on fifty miles of blacktop.

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