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Exploration Drilling
June 1999 by Guest Writer
Selected excerpt from USDA Forest Service Technical Report:Anatomy of a Mine from Prospect to Production
Waldo Miners File Suit
On August 29, 2003, the “Miners” (Waldo Mining District, along with Bob & Lesa Barton of Armadillo Mining Shop) filed Complaints in US District Court for the District of Oregon (Medford) against the United States Forest Service, Scott Conroy (in his official capacity as Forest Supervisor of the Siskiyou National Forest), and Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans.
Prospecting Australia—Part III Anatomy of a Nugget Patch in Western Australia
One of the most memorable nuggets I found in Australia was detected on the very last day that I was out prospecting. I was going along swinging my coil and I came across a blaring loud signal that almost blew my ears off.
Additional Note on Bluff's Beach
I need to mention some additional information pertaining to our recent article on Alaska’s Bluff’s beach…
A Rich Gold Strike at Scossa
The old mining camp of Scossa, in Pershing County, Nevada, was located 6 miles from the nearby ghost camp of Rosebud and approximately 20 miles northeast of the once famous mining town of Seven Troughs. Fifty- two-year-old Charlie Scossa was already a seasoned prospector from California when he went in search of another rich strike in the high deserts of northwestern Nevada in 1930.
What To Do With All That Gold?
I can tell you that a lot of driving and digging hours went into getting that gold. I wish I had something to show for it. I told myself I would never do that again.
Sulfides and Intergrain Gold Wire Nuggets
...these nuggets have not traveled far from the lode because the golden wire lattices would have been torn apart or flattened during weathering of rock and deposition by violent stream action.
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The Bawl Mill
• GATA Launches Investigation into Gold Price Manipulation
• N.Y. Congressman Introduces Utah Wilderness Bill
• Gold in Mono County, California
• Prospecting Ores Shoots and Hidden Veins for Specimen-Grade Gold Samples
• Randsburg—Still Going Strong
• You Want a Ripoff? Here's a Ripoff!!
• Mining Claim Maintenance Fee Due
• Gold and Silver Deposit May Be World's Largest
• Aviators Carry Gold Coins
• Picks & Pans: Koyukuk River Gold—Prospecting Alaska's Brooks Range
• Congressional Request to EPA: "Leave Our Kids Alone!"
• Quartz and Chalcedony in Wyoming
• Company Notes
• Gold at Quartzville, Oregon
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
• Looking Back
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