Gold Tellurides: Tellurium, an Assay Impurity

May 2001 by Don Robinson

Following Clues to a Lost Gold Deposit—The Northern Extension of the Cedarberg

April 2012
Last month, in “Following Clues to a Hidden Gold Deposit,” I ended the article with the direction that we were on the hunt! We were getting prepared and ready to roll with our detectors, then snow came, and lots of it. We had already found the seam diggings mine on the mountainside in wild, rough brush and trees. It had been well hidden.

Ask The Experts: Can you help me identify these items?

June 2010
Q: Can you help me identify these items?

Melman on Gold & Silver

July 2003
One of the most interesting sayings I learned during my early years of observing markets was “Watch what I do, not what I say.” This thought came to mind recently regarding the comments of Fed Chairman Greenspan...

Legislative and Regulatory Update

November 2000
• More National Monument news
• Land-use advocates file another suit over National Monuments
• NWMA's Linda Skaer addresses EPA in northern Idaho

Ask The Experts

September 2015
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Drywashing for Eluvial Gold in the Desert—Using a Portable Drywasher and Hand Tools

February 2005
Often the gold being recovered by drywashing is too fine to be recovered by metal detecting. For every “detectable” nugget found, there could be hundreds of smaller flakes of non-detectable size. Thus, for those that “read the ground,” and snipe for areas of favorable placer concentration, drywashing will continue to be both an inexpensive...

Update On “Special Rock” Kicking

February 2007
Bob “Neverquit” Abendschein’s article on his “Special Rock” in the December 2006 issue was short and to the point. As Neverquit and I are old friends, I sent him e mail:

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