Greens Force Strategic Mine Out of Business

March 2002 by Don Fife

Desert Drywashing

February 2010
I thought I’d try something totally different—a large area of small material tailings. After about an hour of digging and test panning we both had more gold than all the other digs combined.

Our Readers Say

August 2005
• Re: ICMJ's Mine Market ads
• "The enjoyment of prospecting"

"Gold Rush: Alaska" in the Porcupine Mining District

June 2011
Honestly, I don’t believe it is likely there would be a glory hole where they described one at the bottom of the waterfall because plunging water with enough energy to scour out a large hole in bedrock would have the scouring ability to grind up and...

Looking Back

April 1999
Excerpts from California Mining Journal, our original title, published 50 years ago this month.

Experts Forecast Rising Prices for Gold, Silver

August 2004
During the two investment conventions in Vancouver this January, the mood was incredibly upbeat. Gold was rising strongly and prospects appeared bright. The same was true at the giant PDAC gathering in Toronto in March. By late April the shine had come off the short-term prices of metals...

More Small-Scale Miners Attracted by Gold Prices

July 2007
With gold hovering above $650 an ounce, interest in panning and prospecting for the pricey precious metal in northern Idaho’s icy streams and on its rugged mountainsides has enjoyed a mini-boom.

The Bawl Mill

May 2000
• "They treat you like a criminal on your own land."
• IRS goes after low-income taxpayers...

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