Company Notes

March 2002 by Staff

Looking Back

July 1999
Excerpts from California Mining Journal, our original title, published 50 years ago this month.

Discovery of the Silver Bullets

April 2001
In 1926, Carl W. Chilson wrote the authentic history of his family and the discovery of the legendary Apache Mine of the Silver Bullets. The story starts out in 1868 when Steve L. Chilson leaves Bandera, Texas, with his family en route...

Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices

December 2017

Ask the Experts

November 2012
How do I set up a small placer operation?

The Art of Finding Coarse Gold Part II—Pocket Hunting for Residual Placers

January 2005
It is a fact that many of the well-known placer districts of the Western US have small veins that contain sparse pockets of coarse gold as their source. This is the main reason why many rich placer districts have seen little or no hard rock mining...

Gold in Rotten Rock

February 2004
Rotten rock (saprolite) can be found in all warm, humid regions, but is best developed in humid, subtropical climates, like that found in the American South. Outwardly, it looks like bedrock, but upon closer inspection, it can be seen that roots penetrate it and that it can be worked with a shovel or hydraulic monitor.

Oldest Journal Contest - The Winners

February 2009
We received entries from readers in fourteen states for our contest to find out who has the oldest surviving copy of the Journal, originally named the California Mining Journal..

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