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Gemstones
October 1999 by Guest Writer
by Ronald F. BalazikExcerpted from USGS Mineral Industry Survey's 1998 Annual Review
Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
Ask the Experts
Centrifugal bowls versus jigs
Attention to Detail - Part II
Ditches almost always started in the high country and contoured the mountainsides, making a long drop, usually many miles away, to the goldfields. There are ditches in Trinity County that originate at seven and eight thousand feet in the Trinity Alps that carried water almost thirty miles.
The Oregon Claim
When I started dredging a short distance downstream from that feature I realized that I was into a major paystreak and much of the gold was coming right out of the upper gravel. I could see the chunky pieces falling out of the gravel as they were pulled into...
Legislative and Regulatory Update
- November elections
- Anti-mining ballot initiative rejected in Montana
In Pursuit of Gold & Silver in the Sierra Madres—The Tejeda Mines
One of our claims, “concessions” in Spanish, lies atop a mountain approximately 15 miles Southwest of our Pueblo. It is reached by a dirt track that starts in Arivechi. We leave the Pueblo and drive up...
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