Critical Metals: Lithium

February 2014 by Chris Ralph

Gold in The Silver Crown District, Wyoming

February 2015
When my field assistant Jay Roberts and I entered the mine, it appeared as if someone just walked out of the mine, turned off the lights and never returned.

Sixteen to One Gold Mine: Going Underground - Pt II

February 2020

We descended hunched over, down a long, steep, wooden staircase to the 1,000-level.

Connecting With The Past With Gold Rush Coins

September 2023

Critical Metals: Lithium

February 2014
Prospecting for lithium deposits can take a number of different directions, because this metal can be extracted from a variety of geologically differnet sources.

Surface Indications Of Quartz Adularia Epithermal Deposits

May 2015
I am going to keep to the basics of surface indications and visual clues in the rocks and minerals themselves that help me find gold-bearing veins in this classification of deposits.

Round Mountain, Nevada

May 2014
There are a number of veins in the disseminated mineralization, but the principle ones on Round Mountain are known as the Los Gazabo and the Keane.

Gold, Quartz & Chalcedony—Part I

October 2011
Gold has always been noted to have an affinity for quartz to such a degree prospectors almost always dig on quartz veins in a search for the precious metal.

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