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Company Notes
March 2006 by Scott Harn
• Newmont Mining Corp.• Norilsk Nickel
• Sterling Mining Company
Comments on Gold Rush and Bering Sea Gold Series
The 316 Mining Company has not been all that successful, but does not ever seem to learn from their past mistakes.
How to Stake Your Own Mining Claims—Part II
I’d like to offer some practical comments about staking and maintaining mining claims. Owning your own claim is the dream of many prospectors. I’ve made good money off my mining claims, both from the minerals I have found on them as well as from leasing out some of my claims to larger mining and exploration companies.
Pocket Gold
Once a seam is found it can be traced for miles in either direction. While you are tracing a clay line, you are looking for indicators. The indicators that I look for are ironstone, hematite, different color clays intermingled with the clay line, and a very iron-rich, brown gritty soil.
History of Mining—Bradshaw Mountains, AZ (Part I)
The Bradshaw Mountains, southeast of the old territorial capital city of Prescott, contain traces of many old mines and the railroads that were built to serve them.
Germany Developing Gold Vending Machine
It’s a novel twist on the vending machine: in go the coins, out comes a nugget of gold.
Legislative and Regulatory Update
Robert Sanregret—Attorney at Law
Western Mining Council
National Association of Mining Districts
Melman on Gold & Silver
...we are beginning to believe that there is a Grinch out there who steals every rally away from the gold market! There is almost no other explanation for what is going on.
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The Bawl Mill
• A Word from the Editor
• Basic Geology for the Independent Miner—Part III Understanding Plate Tectonics, Volcanism and Mountain Building
• The Fortymile Goldfields
• The Rocks that Burn—Part II Is Oil Shale the Answer?
• Record Interest at Recent Mining Conventions
• Common Operations—Small-Scale Mining and Sharing the "Take"
• Trout Thriving In Treated Mine Water
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
