Finding Diamond Deposits With Your PC—Part II

May 2009 by W. Dan Hausel

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.

Michigan DEQ Gives Tentative OK to Nickel, Copper Mine

February 2007
Environmentalists were happy when the state adopted rules governing an underground mining method that hadn’t been tried in Michigan. Now they’re angry.

Our Readers Say

August 2005
• Re: ICMJ's Mine Market ads
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The Story Behind the Story

March 2013
Anyone who has found a patch knows the difficulties involved. Those who haven’t can guess, and with any effort will soon realize it.

New Regulations for Major Precious Metal Dealers

July 2005
The Bush administration, in its latest effort to nab drug lords and terror financiers, will require major dealers in gold, diamonds and other precious metals and gems to set up comprehensive programs to combat money laundering, announced the Treasury Department.

Prospecting for Pegmatites

July 2015

…in some cases pegmatites have produced individual mineral crystals that are enormous, attaining lengths of over 40 feet long, and many of the world’s largest mineral crystals are examples that were found within pegmatite deposits.

State Lends Help to County in Nevada Road Fight

April 2015
Nevada’s attorney general for the first time is joining a rural county in a 15-year-old legal battle...

The Fern Mine

July 2004
Sharp, jagged mountains shot up around me as I slowly bumped my way, in my old Chevy pickup, up the boulder strewn mining road to the Fern Mine. The Fern Mine is situated on the west side of Archangel Creek, where several other hard rock mines once operated.

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