Company Notes

March 1999 by Staff

Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife Raises Harassment of Miners to a New Level

August 2002
New regulations have given the enforcement arm of the WDFW official “police” status, with the authority to issue citations, pursue warrants, make arrests and confiscate items.

Update on MMAC & PLP

June 2015
Public Lands for the People is working on a Miner's Bill of Rights with the support of several members of Congress.

Prospecting for Platinum in Wyoming

December 2000
Prospectors and rock hounds should consider searching for platinum-group metals, as these metals are the most precious of the precious metals. Several localities have been identified where these metals have been identified In anomalous amounts.

Revisiting the Rocker Box

August 2016
The first location we worked was a small, dry ravine cutting through many mineralized zones in an area where some hard rock mining had taken place in the past.

MMAC & PLP Update

June 2016
Each separate Mining District is a federally recognized entity. There are huge advantages—picture yourself going to an oversight meeting where 2, 3, 4, or even more Mining District representatives have obtained voting positions on the board. 

Metal-Mineral Identification Utilizing a Detector

November 2005
Seldom is a metal detector used for ore sampling today. Nevertheless, this procedure still works as all BFO and VLF detectors have a non-conductive mineral zone and a conductive metal zone with a neutral null zone between them.

In Pursuit of Gold and Silver in the Sierra Madres—Establishing a Mining Company in Mexico

February 2007
My wife Ann and I moved three years ago to the Pueblo of Arivechi, Sonora, in order to be near the mining concessions we owned and to build a precious metals concentrating mill.

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