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Company Notes
December 2000 by Staff
• X-Cal Resources• Placer Dome Inc.
• Homestake Mining Company
• Canyon Resources Corp.
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Excerpts from CMJ published 50 years ago this month.
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Every placer miner has to deal with it in one form or another, and some locations have it far worse than others, but nearly every placer has at least some of it: black sand. It collects in our concentrates and gets in the way of recovering our fine gold.
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During the summer break of my first year of college in the late ‘50s, I was unemployed and bored, so my friends and I decided to do some gold mine exploration. We used to read a magazine called Treasure and had a good idea of where all the gold mines were located.
During the summer break of my first year of college in the late ‘50s, I was unemployed and bored, so my friends and I decided to do some gold mine exploration. We used to read a magazine called Treasure and had a good idea of where all the gold mines were located.
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Apart from the hard rock mines, there are abundant gold-bearing placers, especially in the areas in and around Oriental Wash.
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Placer & Lode Gold Deposits
October 2001
Even though there are many varieties of gold deposits, prospectors often refer to two general types: placer and lode. Some lode examples include...
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Recent Prospecting in Plumas County
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Plumas has been historically rich in gold because of its favorable geology. The Melones Fault trends north-south through the county and many rich gold-bearing districts lie along its course.
Plumas has been historically rich in gold because of its favorable geology. The Melones Fault trends north-south through the county and many rich gold-bearing districts lie along its course.
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