Company Notes

February 2001 by Staff

The Suction Gold Dredging Fight Continues in California

July 2009
The story is similar to what has played out over the past several years. The Karuk Tribe of northern California, with the support of several environmental and fishing groups, sues the California Department of Fish & Game in an attempt to stop suction gold dredging in the state. At the same time, they find a state legislator sympathetic to their cause and persuade the legislator to introduce a bill to stop suction gold dredging.

Ask the Experts

February 2015
• How to find info on a particular mining claim

Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices

January 2016

Determining the Amount of Gold in Rich Ores

February 2016
This is just the type of specimen that could have been easily ignored by the old-time miners. It felt a little heavier in my hand than a chunk of quartz of that size ought to have been.

Melman on Gold & Silver

February 2010
As laws become cluttered, difficult to understand and almost impossible to enforce both effectively and economically, they are bound to drag down industry and commerce inside a welter of complications.

The Bawl Mill

February 2005
• Environmental solution becomes the problem
• How much money are you forfeiting?
• The unbearable snowman

Judge Blocks Road Protest

November 1999
A federal judge has blocked a citizens' group from re-building a remote mountain road, a project that state and local officials feared might lead to violence.

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