Company Notes

July 2000 by Staff

Landowners See Potential Gold Mine in Uranium Ore

December 2007
A group of Pittsylvania County landowners sitting on 92 million pounds of uranium ore wants Virginia to end its 25-year ban on uranium mining.

Working the Belmont Mine Butte, Montana—1953

October 2002
Waiting to go underground in the Belmont Mine in Butte, Montana, I hoped that I didn’t look like a green college kid. I enjoyed watching the ropes run through the sheaves at the top of the head frame as the shaft crew was busy changing over...

Gold in the Slate Creek Basin

September 2011
In some areas these channels were thousands of feet wide, and just figuring out where you are in some of these diggings is a challenge.

Throw-Away Gold: Back to Basics

February 2002
Placer mining, whether for profit or recreational purposes, involves separation of free gold from the gold-bearing sands (gangue) of alluvial deposits by methods using specific gravity. The free gold can vary from 17 to 19.3 in specific gravity terms, depending on the alloy mix, which is usually silver, but can be copper, lead, sulfur, tellurium, antimony, or mercury.

2002 California State Gold Panning Championships—Foresthill, California

October 2002
For the second year in a row the historic mining town of Foresthill hosted the California State Gold Panning Championships. The State Championships are sponsored by the Mother Lode Goldhounds, a California non-profit corporation.

Beach Mining for Gold

March 2010
Commonly these layers contain small particles of gold and platinum, and in places where they are sufficiently concentrated, the metallic particles are abundant enough to be extracted profitably.

The Bawl Mill

June 2006
• “Mom” and “dad” expelled from school?
• Foxes in the henhouse
• In good company
• Taxpayers torpedoed

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