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Diamond Search Underway in Alaska and Minnesota
May 2005 by Associated Press
Two Canadian companies are financing a $1 million drilling operation in the Susitna Valley after a Palmer miner discovered purple and orange garnets in gravel he dredged near Shulin Lake.My Introduction To Gold Prospecting
At the end of the day, Jerry showed me how to clean out the sluice box and then how to pan out the concentrates. As we finished panning, there it was—a little tiny smile of gold...
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• Not what we had in mind...
• The high price of poverty
• Wipe that smile off your face
Ask The Experts—Using classifiers
Q: I would like to know how to use a classifier when I dump my gravel into my sluice box. I would also like to know what sizes classifiers come in. I know that they are in sizes like -3/4. What does the “minus” in the size mean? Thanks for any help you can give me.
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Suction dredging update for California
• The anti-mining Congress
Legislative and Regulatory Update
- House appropriations bills introduced
- Two Minnesota hardrock mining leases reinstated
- Equal Access to Justice Act
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Election fallout
• Bad news in Bolivia
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• Our Readers Say
• Estimating Gold Values in Placer Gravels
• Lode Gold in Nicaragua
• Miners: Plan Ahead for Next Year's Taxes
• California's Original Sixteen to One Mine
• Montana Multiple Use Association Backs Miner
• Picks & Pans: Detecting Micro-Nuggets
• Mining Outfits Eye 50-Year Supply of Iron Ore
• Goldfield—Princess of the Mojave
• Couple Creates Jewelry of the Iron Range
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Looking Back
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
