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Dry Placers in the Kamma Mountains, Nevada
April 1999 by Edgar B. Heylmun, PhD
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Silver at Calico, California
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Gold Mining Boom in the Carolinas
Not too far from the pine-filled mountains, a young boy was exploring along Meadow Creek in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, one fine day in 1799. He discovered a beautiful rock that he took home and put to good use as a doorstop. Shortly thereafter, a jeweler stopped by to visit his folks, and as it turned out, the new doorstop was actually a 17-pound gold nugget. That nugget truly did open a door as it marked the beginning of the first gold rush in America.
Wyoming's Billion Dollar Nugget—The Trilogy Ends
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Adventure at the 420 Level
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Prairie Creek Project Approaches Final Hurdle
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Forty-Six Nuggets
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Melman on Gold & Silver
Well, the Iraqi War is over, at least the active, battlefield portion of it. “All” that remains is to create a democratic nation in a region where political freedom is a virtually unknown concept. With the conflict over, many observers now eagerly await the post-war boom that has accompanied some previous major wars, particularly World War II.
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