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Company Notes
August 2001 by Staff
• Pure Gold Minerals Inc.• International Freegold Mineral Development Inc.
• Hope Bay Gold Corp. Inc.
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Pendley nomination withdrawn but will remain BLM director for now
• Comments needed for Midas Gold project in Idaho
Looking Back
Excerpts from CMJ published 50 years ago this month.
Piedmont Gold
The Piedmont region of the eastern United States extends for over 800 miles, from Alabama northeast to Pennsylvania. It includes the rolling country between the flat coastal plain to the east and the Blue Ridge Mountains to the west.
Following Clues to a Hidden Gold Deposit
Many years ago I was in the American Canyon. I remembered a few details about a placer deposit there, so we decided to make a trip down and re-check some of these old workings.
A Journey Into the Silver Peak Range
The Gold Rush in California called hundreds of thousands of souls to leave their homes to journey to the the far reaches of the West. At first the rich goldfields of the Sierra Nevada beckoned to these adventurous pioneers.
Geology of Placer Deposits: Reading a River
September 2022The exact point where you choose to dig for gold makes all the difference in the world.
State Rivers Closed to Prospecting in Washington
The Washington Department of Natural Resources appeared at a recent dredge rally near Oroville to announce the closure of all state-owned aquatic lands to prospecting.
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The Bawl Mill
• Our Readers Say
• The Public Process—Getting Involved and Making a Difference
• Pacific Northwest Miners Request Help
• USFS Roadless Comments Reopened
• Flat-Fault Gold
• Basic Drywashing Principles
• Fields of Gold
• Picks & Pans: All That Glitters Pans Out Well!
• De Beers Undergoes Overhaul
• Gold in Michigan
• Update on the West Mojave Desert Planning Area
• 2001 Inductees to the National Mining Hall of Fame
• The Spanish Silver of Mowry
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
