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Enthusiastic Crowds at PDAC
April 2005 by Leonard Melman
Nearly 11,000 attended this year’s Prospector and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention in Toronto. Joe Hamilton, president of the Convention Planning Committee, beleived he knew why the numbers were so high.Additional articles that might interest you...
Dry Placers in the Kamma Mountains, Nevada
April 1999
There are dry placer gold deposits in every county in Nevada, some of which are yet to be discovered.

A Profitable Approach—Financing Mineral Exploration With Oil & Gas Projects
January 2006
Not too many years ago, junior mining companies most frequently limited their activities to exploring and pre-developing their mining properties.

Newmont Looks to Ghana
February 2006
Newmont Mining Corp. is intensifying a global hunt for the next mother lode of gold.
Newmont Mining Corp. is intensifying a global hunt for the next mother lode of gold.
Small-Scale Miners Rock the Mining World
August 2012
With the high price of gold, there are many new prospectors out in the hills all over the United States, and while we would all prefer to be finding those larger nuggets, it doesn’t always work that way. Sometimes all that is available is nothing more than a few small flakes. The truth is, new prospectors are sprouting up all across the planet—especially in the developing nations.
With the high price of gold, there are many new prospectors out in the hills all over the United States, and while we would all prefer to be finding those larger nuggets, it doesn’t always work that way. Sometimes all that is available is nothing more than a few small flakes. The truth is, new prospectors are sprouting up all across the planet—especially in the developing nations.
Over the Divide
April 1999
Virginia Elvira Russell
(Mining Grandma of Humbug)
March 4, 1999
Virginia Elvira Russell
(Mining Grandma of Humbug)
March 4, 1999
Picks & Pans: Fig Tree, Grape Vine and Good Gold
November 2002
The south fork of the Yuba River was still too high to cross safely on the first day of the dredging season for 2002, but Leon was able to use this condition to his advantage. He dredged high on the bank where big dredges would not go and produced...

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