Company Notes

November 2003 by Staff

Hardrock Detecting

October 2002
A local mining company had been mining in the Circle mining district area creeks in interior Alaska for sixteen years. Using bulldozers, drag-lines, water pumps, and large sluicing plants, the owner-operator was very familiar with the geology...

The Alaska Highway and Beyond

October 2013
My first clean-up showed that my efforts were not in vain. There was considerable color with some good-sized nuggets in the riffle trap.

Ask The Experts — Please tell me more about the Tullock II rule.

March 2007
Q: I read in the April 2006 ICMJ’s Prospecting and Mining Journal about the Tulloch II rule. I have not read anything on or about it since. Is there any more written about it? I would appreciate anything you could tell me.

Poll: Montana in Favor of Repealing Anti-Mining Initiative

May 2003
Canyon Resources Corporation announced results of a recent Montana poll and events in the Montana Legislative session related to citizen efforts to modify or overturn the anti-mining initiative (I-137) passed in 1998 that bans the use of cyanide in open-pit gold and silver mining.

Australian Prospector Detects 150-Ounce Nugget

March 2004
We’ll call this prospector “Bill.” Bill found the nuggets pictured in a gully in Victoria’s Golden Triangle, where everyone had been detecting for more than twenty-five years. Many good nuggets were found in this gully over the years, and whenever...

Legislative and Regulatory Update

April 2016
• BLM proposed budget asks for funds for mining restrictions
• Oregon bill 838
• California suction gold dredging update

Companies Scramble to Boost Copper Production

June 2005
Soaring prices for copper and molybdenum are producing record profits for mining companies and new jobs in some Arizona towns.

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