Company Notes

August 2000 by Staff

Determining the Amount of Gold in a Quartz Specimen

November 2004
Many prospectors who find specimens of rich quartz with visible gold often wonder about the gold content of their specimens. Pieces with significant visible gold can sometimes be found at hard rock mines, by prospecting...

Prospecting on the North Yuba

December 2011
The research I did for “Gold in the Slate Creek Basin” (September 2011 issue) found me chasing a channel out of the LaPorte territory headed towards the old mining town of Brandy City, California.

Legislative and Regulatory Update

March 2010
• More “bull” from Fish & Wildlife
• Global Warming is cooling off

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.

Melman on Gold & Silver

September 2015
The most important question, of course, is when these deteriorating fundamentals (positive for the precious metals) will overcome the lengthy deterioration in the long-term trading charts for gold and silver and their associated mining shares.

Gold Dredgers Rescue Threatened Fish

May 2004
Gold dredgers were enlisted in an effort to salvage a rare stretch of chum salmon spawning grounds along the Columbia River between Vancouver, Washington, and Portland, Oregon.

State Lends Help to County in Nevada Road Fight

April 2015
Nevada’s attorney general for the first time is joining a rural county in a 15-year-old legal battle...

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