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November 2001 by Scott Harn
As we all get back to “normal,” or as close to it as we can, I want to take this opportunity to thank all of our advertisers for sticking it out through the hard times.Ask The Experts
Q: Is there a correlation between fault zones and mineralization of economic metals?
This is Why You Check Your Tailings
The nugget was cast aside with larger rocks during the screening process, but it was found later by an employee...
Famous Yuba River Dredge Sinks
The Yuba #21 gold dredge sunk in the Yuba Goldfields of northern California in late January.
Discovery of the Silver Bullets
In 1926, Carl W. Chilson wrote the authentic history of his family and the discovery of the legendary Apache Mine of the Silver Bullets. The story starts out in 1868 when Steve L. Chilson leaves Bandera, Texas, with his family en route...
Gold Prospecting for Better or Worse: The Superbowl Nugget
My next strategy was to walk anywhere and everywhere that I had been inside this home and garage. I looked on the floor, in the bathroom, I checked the bathroom trash can, and I even pulled the shower curtain back and looked in the bathtub.
Fly Fishing the Mine Tailings/Headwaters of the Clark Fork, Montana
Outside of Butte, Montana, going north on I90, you’ll pass through a landscape where the old Anaconda mining company processed thousands of tons of ore twenty years ago. We meant to fish in the vicinity of this historic mining district though we knew it is a Federally classified Superfund site for reclamation now.
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