Company Notes

January 2000 by Staff

The Bawl Mill

September 2005
• Excerpts from past issues

Horsetail Gold

May 2008
The horsetail is a type of plant that grows in sandy soil usually very close to a water supply. Its uses are many as it has a high silica content that allegedly can be of some medicinal value, but its primary function during the gold rush days was for...

Melman on Gold & Silver

September 2001
One of my favorite sayings has always been, “Do as I say, not as I do.” Perhaps that old adage could be applied to Alan Greenspan and the actions of the Federal Reserve of late. They are telling us that the economy is not in bad shape; that we are not in or headed to recession and that new strength is just around the bend. They are acting as if there is a looming catastrophe.

Rediscovering Placerville, California Part II

March 2011
To get to the gold, the miners had to remove the shale pieces and stack them on the sides while sluicing the remaining material through their boxes.

Looking Back

April 1999
Excerpts from California Mining Journal, our original title, published 50 years ago this month.

Melman on Gold & Silver

March 2002
Who would have thought it possible? According to a New York Times editorial in late January, they predict that the terrorist attack on September 11 will not be remembered by historians as the most significant event of the last half of 2001. Their new choice is the collapse of corporate giant Enron—and they just may be right.

Picks & Pans: Detecting in Kauai, Hawaii

July 2000
Winter in Alaska! What is an Alaskan gold miner to do? Go somewhere warm to look for gold, that's what!

Subscription Required:
The Bawl Mill   • Over the Divide   • Our Readers Say   • Letter from the Editor to our Readers and Advertisers   • Administration Considers Bypassing Congress   • First Woman to Draw Mining Pension   • Small Mine Selective Blasting   • Mohave Mountain Placers, Arizona   • High Court to Reconsider Wilderness Water Rights   • Sixteen to One Takes on MSHA   • Picks & Pans: Gold Mining on Joie Osgood Ranch   • Gold   • Millie's Tailings   • Placer PGMs in Alaska   • Mogollon—New Mexico's Remote Gold Camp   • ICMJ 9th Annual Photo Contest Results   • The Other Minerals of Mt. Diablo   • Melman on Gold & Silver   • Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices   • Looking Back

Free:
Legislative and Regulatory Update