Company Notes

March 2000 by Staff

The Treasure Detective—Part II

August 2006
GNIS is an acronym for the “Geographic Names Information Service” that is maintained by the United States Geological Survey. The database catalogs and standardizes place names in the United States. This information set has nearly 2,000,000...

The Ely Copper-Gold District of Nevada

January 2015
The main ore deposits of the Ely district are associated with an east-west belt of altered and mineralized rocks measuring about one mile wide that extends 8 miles westward from Ely.

Hard Rock University: Expensive Hobby or Real Business?

July 2015
Improper sampling techniques lead to more avoidable heartache than almost anything else in micro mining.

Pickering Bar Revisited

August 2008
Pickering Bar on the North Fork of the American River is a fascinating place. It’s remote, taking almost two hours to get there from the small mining town of Iowa Hill, which is in Placer County, California.

Our 29-Troy-Ounce Golden Blessing

December 2013
I picked up a noticeably heavy, fist-sized chunk of what I thought was a heavy piece of iron. After wiping some of the dirt and clay off, I still didn't know what on earth this object was.

Legislative and Regulatory Update

September 2013
• Comment period extended for frog habitat
• Tennessee permits for gold prospecting
• California dredging injunction and restraining order hearing

Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices

November 2012

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