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Drywashing Alluvial Placers

Portable, hand-operated, bellows drywashers have been used for over a hundred years to recover gold in the deserts of Arizona, New Mexico, California and Nevada. Drywashers were considered a last resort over...

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Melman on Gold & Silver


Deadlines are something we must live with at ICMJ as with any other publication, and as this columnist’s deadline approached early Tuesday morning of September 11, I turned on the financial channel to get some last pre-market commentary before completing this month’s column. What I saw was virtually beyond belief. A jetliner had just crashed into one of the two towers of the World Trade Center...

BLM Launches Mining Claim Records Viewer


The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has added some useful tools to their website. The Land and Mineral Use Records system has been meshed with a map viewer that allows users to obtain mining claim information in a useful format.

Tales of California Gold Discoveries 1st in a Series—Yankee Jim's


Most everyone has heard the term “gold is where you find it’” and probably have read how James Marshall, in 1848, while inspecting the mill-race ditch that had been dug to supply water for the saws at the sawmill that he was building for John Sutter, ended up finding the first pieces of gold within the ditch along the South Fork of the American River...

Gold Prospecting for Better or Worse: Warm Buttocks and Frozen Assets


Luckily, at about that time, I buddied up with a somewhat cantankerous, but very helpful, guy named Rod. He had become a local legend for his ability to consistently find gold.

Simple Mine Surveying With Basic Hand Tools


…there is an easy way to create a reasonably accurate map without any fancy instruments.

Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices


Looking Back


Excerpts from California Mining Journal, our original title, published 50 years ago this month.

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The Bawl Mill   • A Word from the Editor   • Under the Guise of Environmental Protection—EPA Revealed   • The Centennial Lode and the Centennial Ridge District, Wyoming   • Company Notes   • Picks & Pans—In Search of Nome Creek Gold   • Massive Sulfide Deposits in Oregon   • Recreational Dredging on the South Yuba River   • The Trapiches of Chile   • Tales of Liberty Gold   • Melman on Gold & Silver   • Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices

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