Company Notes

September 1999 by Staff

Australia's First Gold Rush

April 2008
Gold was found in California a few years before the first official finds were made in Australia. It was on February 12, 1851, that Edward Hammond Hargreaves flashed around specks of gold he’d found in nearby Lewis Ponds Creek and sparked the...

Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices

June 2006

Cutbacks at S. African Mines—Britain Blamed

August 1999
South African gold miners are turning their anger towards Britain, charging that the sale of 25 tons of gold by the Bank of England has depressed gold prices and put them out of work.

Oregon Miners File Suit Against Fisheries Service

August 2002
Eastern Oregon Mining Association members have filed a federal lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) demanding that the agency provide biological opinions on any threat to wildlife or the environment so miners can begin working their claims.

Letter to the Editor

June 2000
The Colorado River Indian Tribes wish to be given 16,000 acres in La Paz County, Arizona, that was at one time theirs...

Legislative and Regulatory Update

July 2008
• Latest assault on dredging in California
• Travel Management Plans

Our Readers Say

July 2000
• "Kiss your property rights goodbye...

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