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Getting The Most Value From Your Gold-Quartz Specimens
June 2010 by Chris Ralph
Just simply crushing up all your specimens for their gold content may be a serious waste of potential cash.
The Bawl Mill
• Down on the farm...
• Who you gonna call...
• Deceased still collect wages...
1st Annual Placer County Open Gold Panning Championships—1999
Before it was over, 200 buckets of gravel and gold were swished and swirled in competition to determine who was the best gold panner in the County.
The Tonopah Gold and Silver District
The discovery of the Tonopah District by Jim Butler in May, 1900, was by far the most important event of its time, just as the discovery of the Comstock was the most important event in the Nevada’s earlier history.
Ask The Experts - Looking for help smelting gold
The Bawl Mill
• Feeding at the government trough
• Environmental group tops the US domestic terroritst list
• Some towns will do anything for tourism...
Get The Lead Out!
If you do the math, it equates to about $1,500 of heavy metal value per three-hour dive. This is good wages, and you are doing a service to the environment by removing this toxic metal.
Picks & Pans—In Search of Nome Creek Gold
My father recalled fondly his early years of flying his Super Cub into the Preacher Creek watershed in search of game and gold, landing on wind blown ridges traversed by the giant Porcupine caribou herd that frequented the area.
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The Bawl Mill
• Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Sluicing at Rocky Bar, Idaho
• Nine Pound Nugget Found In Northern California!
• How Much Gold Is In My Gold-Quartz Specimen?
• Glaciers and Placer Gold Deposits
• Ask The Experts: Can you help me identify these items?
• Highbanking and the House Rock
• Fix or Replace, Depreciate or Write-Off
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Mining Stock Quotes & Mineral and Metal Prices
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Update on Oregon, Idaho and California Suction Dredge Permits
• ECU Silver Mining Continues The Legacy
