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Gold in New Zealand
July 2007 by Jim Foster
In 1965, I visited New Zealand and saw a South Island goldfield. I knew very little about gold at that time and stopped only long enough to peruse a few relics and old photos on the pub wall.
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Battle continues in the "Golden State"
• California Water Board needs your comments
PLP Gets the Key!
I am an electrical contractor and a Board Member of Public Lands for the People (PLP). I have clients, a husband and wife, who own private property in the Los Padres National Forest. There are two ways to access their property. Both are pilots and able to fly in via small plane or helicopter, which for me was an exciting perk of working at this property.
MMAC & PLP Update
We definitely got their undivided attention with our presentations. As a direct result of our presentations, the Desert Advisory Council recommended a Memorandum of Understanding be put together between the council and the Rand Mining District. This MOU was recently completed.
Melman on Gold & Silver
The combination of these two concerns—the drift toward socialism and the willingness to violate law—appear to me to be capable of raising the level of civil disorder to a point where such disorders could be positive influences on the price of gold and silver.
Gold Deposits Of South Carolina
Gold was first discovered in South Carolina in 1827 in placer deposits near the Haile Mine, which later became the largest gold producer in the southeastern states. The Carolina belt is the most extensive and most productive...
Detecting During Summer Heat
This concept of detecting does not always work as we sometimes get a week or so where the temperatures rise to 116°—sometimes more.
Tales of California Gold Discoveries 1st in a Series—Yankee Jim's
Most everyone has heard the term “gold is where you find it’” and probably have read how James Marshall, in 1848, while inspecting the mill-race ditch that had been dug to supply water for the saws at the sawmill that he was building for John Sutter, ended up finding the first pieces of gold within the ditch along the South Fork of the American River...
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The Bawl Mill
• Ask the Experts
• More Tips for Evaluating Ores
• The Mountain Gate Mine
• The Basics of Small-Scale Heap Leaching with Cyanide Part I—History, Suitablility and Permitting
• Oregon Suction Dredge Permit Update
• In Pursuit of Gold and Silver in the Sierra Madres—Buying the Pilot Mill
• Life in the Alaska Gold Rush
• More Small-Scale Miners Attracted by Gold Prices
• Ready “Ore” Not, Uranium Boom is On Again
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
• Looking Back
