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June 1999 by Staff
• Crown Resources Corp.• X-Cal Resources Ltd.
• Altair International
• Royal Gold, Inc.
The Mid-Winter Nugget
Some of the gold is placer that was beat up as it traveled; however, quite a bit of the gold is pocket gold that is running along the surface in this area.
Critical Minerals: Tungsten
Because tungsten minerals are heavy, exploration can be done using stream sediment samples. Prospectors looking for gold have found scheelite or wolframite in their placer concentrates, and in some cases this has led them to make important tungsten finds.
The Bawl Mill
• Do as I say, not as I do...
• A poor investment...
Forty-Six Nuggets
This past summer, a two-week adventure in Alaska and other gold prospecting trips turned out to be some of my greatest life experiences.
The Basics of Crushing and Milling Operations
In processing gold, silver and other valuable ores, the minerals containing the values, such as metallic gold, silver-bearing sulfides or other minerals, must be freed from the surrounding host rock before those valuable minerals can be captured.
Aussie Gold—A Look at Victoria
Although one of the smaller states in Australia, Victoria can lay claim to being the richest, especially in regards to large nuggets. An almost endless discovery of massive specimens highlighted the early years of gold mining here.
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The Bawl Mill
• GATA Launches Investigation into Gold Price Manipulation
• N.Y. Congressman Introduces Utah Wilderness Bill
• Gold in Mono County, California
• Prospecting Ores Shoots and Hidden Veins for Specimen-Grade Gold Samples
• Randsburg—Still Going Strong
• Exploration Drilling
• You Want a Ripoff? Here's a Ripoff!!
• Mining Claim Maintenance Fee Due
• Gold and Silver Deposit May Be World's Largest
• Aviators Carry Gold Coins
• Picks & Pans: Koyukuk River Gold—Prospecting Alaska's Brooks Range
• Congressional Request to EPA: "Leave Our Kids Alone!"
• Quartz and Chalcedony in Wyoming
• Gold at Quartzville, Oregon
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
• Looking Back
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