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Company to Sue Over Stymied Gold Mine
November 1999 by Associated Press
A Colorado company that saw its plans for a big Montana gold mine derailed by a 1998 voter initiative says it will sue the state for hundreds of millions of dollars, to cover loss of the project.The Next Crisis For America
America’s reliance on foreign imports for minerals and metals continues at an alarming rate. The US Geological Survey reported that the US imported $132 billion in nonfuel minerals and metals in 2006.
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• State officials rip EPA plan for Coeur d'Alene Basin
• Judge keeps parts of suit over cyanide ban alive
• Change in arsenic standard will be felt in rural areas
A Father’s Day to Remember: 24,000 Ounces Gold in Quartz
Father’s Day in Australia was on September 2, and it’s a day a group of miners from “down under” won’t soon forget.
Mining Boom May Be In Store For Upper Michigan
While digging a well six years ago, the owner of a backwoods camp near the Michigan-Wisconsin line cut into sparkling rock. He showed a sample to a geologist friend, who realized it was laced with zinc.
Commercial Placer Mining With Jigs
During the upward stroke, water is pushed up through the shot layer causing it to open up and lifting the gravel particles above. The heavier particles settle faster based on Stokes law, and move down into the shot bed layer, while the lighter...
Sandstone Silver in Texas
Sandstone silver deposits are found at several places near Van Horn, West Texas. The region is in the Basin Range province, which is characterized by low mountain ranges separated by broad desert valleys. Most of the region receives less than 10 inches of rain per year, barely enough to support scrubby desert vegetation. Van Horn (Pop. 3,000) is 121 miles, by highway, east of El Paso.
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The Bawl Mill
• USPS Delays ICMJ Delivery at Oakland, CA Processing Center
• Another Gold Heist Reported at Nome
• No Need to Rewrite Mining Regs, NAS Study Confirms
• BLM Filing Requirements for Small Miners' Waiver
• Asarco Accepts Phelps Dodge Buyout
• Once Lonely, Mojave Desert Phone Now World's Companion
• Judge Blocks Road Protest
• No Mining / Logging on 40 Million Acres
• Catastrophism vs. Uniformitarianism
• 1st Annual Placer County Open Gold Panning Championships—1999
• Picks & Pans: The Ten-Pennyweight Nugget
• Mining in Sonora, Mexico
• Pullin' the Pin
• Land of Golden Dreams—California in the Gold Rush Decade
• Cerro Colorado Silver, Arizona
• Progressive Privy Program Proved Popular
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
• Surging Gold Prices Burn a Few Unlucky Mining Firms
• Looking Back
