Guest Editorial—California "Special" Dredge Permits in Jeopardy

December 1999 by Guest Writer

Clinton Declares Three More National Monuments

February 2000
President Clinton took a helicopter tour of the Grand Canyon yesterday, then put his pen to paper to designate three more areas as national monuments and expand several others.

China Will Put Rio Tinto Employees on Trial

March 2010
The Australian government confirmed it was notified that a Shanghai court will try the four Rio employees including an Australian national.

Ask the Experts: VMS ore

August 2012
Q: Are there any mills that handle VMS ore?

Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices

November 2004

Picks & Pans: In Search of a Vein: Looking for Hardrock in the Talkeetna Mountains

March 2005
Down, down, down I plummeted into the narrow granite chute. In a matter of a few seconds, I envisioned myself lying crumpled in a field of mammoth, sharp, jagged granite rocks. In those few seconds, my thoughts also imagined my life ebbing...

The Art of Finding Coarse Gold Part II—Pocket Hunting for Residual Placers

January 2005
It is a fact that many of the well-known placer districts of the Western US have small veins that contain sparse pockets of coarse gold as their source. This is the main reason why many rich placer districts have seen little or no hard rock mining...

Picks & Pans: Confessions of a Small Miner—Part I

March 1999
On a beautiful day in 1971, my wife and I were scratching around some old miner's camp when I dug up a metal gold pan and thought I would try my hand at panning for gold. (mistake #1)

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