Elko County Has Highest State Median Income

January 2009 by Associated Press

Picks & Pans: Family's Identity Forged Working Nevada's Gold

April 2004
My mother stands in the desert, a hot wind kicking up puffs in the sand around her feet. She’s staring hard at the rusted buckets, weathered boards and mine shafts scattered throughout the sagebrush, concentrating, and I can tell she’s not really here. Not here now, at least. She is here 65 years ago. And this is not a long-abandoned ghost town at the end of a dirt road in one of Nevada’s endless stretches of nowhere.

Placer Mining in Canada's Yukon Territory

February 2010
Frank Taylor’s family has been mining in the same area of the Yukon Territory since 1935. He’s been working his current placer operation on Duncan Creek near Mayo since 1975.

Melman on Gold & Silver

November 2006
The Bush Administration couldn’t seem to avoid pitfalls as the all-important fall elections approached and the latest scandal involving sexually explicit messages between (former) Congressman Foley and a congressional page could not have come at a worse time for the President’s party.

Gold Mine Plans Upheld in Lawsuit

May 2004
Officials for the largest gold producing company in the world claimed a significant legal victory over environmentalists who they accused of abusing the appeals process to thwart mining in Nevada.

Dredging at Real Del Castillo, Baja

October 2008
Suction gold dredging at Real Del Castillo, a remote and seldom visited old gold mining camp less than fifty miles north and east of Ensenada, Mexico.

Ask The Experts - Claim staking as a job?

February 2022

Memories of Shirttail Creek, Northern California

June 2020

…for a few hours, we fervently dug for gold. After we did a cleanup, I couldn’t believe the amount we got.

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