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Exchange Moves to Protect Investors from Mining Scams
March 1999 by Associated Press
Two years after the Bre-X gold mine scandal, the Toronto Stock Exchange proposed dozens of measures February 2 to protect investors from future mining-industry scams.Tools of the Modern Prospector: The GPS
GPS provides the prospector a precise way of knowing just where something (like a mine) is located. There are many thousands of lost mine stories—some real, and some made up. The use of a GPS could well have made the difference to accurately record their location.
Visionaries, Scoundrels, and Gamblers
Ask leading historians to name Colorado's top 10 builders and the list quickly grows to 50 people. The list includes visionaries, scoundrels and gamblers.
High Prices for Gold, Silver & Copper: What Does it Mean for Prospectors?
Perhaps the first and most important is the fact that the foreign exchange value of the US Dollar has been going down steadily for several months. As the value of the Dollar goes down, the price of goods in Dollar terms tend to go up…
Finding Diamond Deposits With Your PC—Part II
As you search for cryptovolcanic structures in Colorado and Wyoming look to see if the anomaly has white soil. If the anomaly lies within a forest of pines, often the depression will occur in a distinct treeless area outlined by aspens and willows.
Bella's Birthday Nugget
...under Oakie Jim’s leadership, Lunker Hill was to become a textbook operation of using handheld very low frequency (VLF) and pulse induction (PI) metal detectors to recover placer gold...
The Bawl Mill
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• Auditors get audited
• Will you be able to afford to retire?
• The $200,000 crow
Melman on Gold & Silver
Fundamental information on gold and silver turned more to the bullish side this past month, and we can point to three particular items as the basis for that conclusion.
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The Bawl Mill
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• Death Valley Find is Apparent Hoax
• Mining Ends in Leadville
• Mine Woes Could Mean Higher Taxes
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• The Beer That Saved Goldfield
• Mining Benefits Everyone During Winter Months
• AZ Miners and Minerals Department Threatened with Elimination
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• Small Mines Bill Clears Committee
• Successful Mineral Property Promotion
• Picks & Pans: Confessions of a Small Miner—Part I
• Gold in Moffat County, Colorado
• Forest Service Chief Calls for Mining Moratorium in Montana
• Governor Tells Industry He Will Consider Tax Cuts
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• Gold Mine Becomes "Golden Partner" of California Sesquicentennial
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