Guest Editorial: U.S. Government—Like Nobody's Business

December 1999 by Guest Writer

Legislative and Regulatory Update

February 2016

• California suction dredging trial resumes

• USFS tries unique method to restrict gold dredging in Idaho

• Defiant dredgers tell State of Oregon to “drop dead”

Mining Boom Is Back In Northern Nevada

April 2007
At the Gold Quarry open-pit mine, a massive electric shovel scoops 40 tons of earth in a single bite and dumps it into a 325,000-pound truck the size of a two-story house.

Treasure Hunters Abound in Greece

July 2000
Greed nearly starved Greece's legendary gold-transforming King Midas to death—but still they haven't learned.

Ask The Experts - Will this paystreak be downriver off the trailing edge of bedrock?

June 2018

New Oregon Mining Legislation Friendly to Small Miner

August 1999
Oregon Independent Miners president, John Holleman, has advised ICMJ that legislation important to the Oregon small miner, sponsored by his organization, has been signed into law.

Legislative and Regulatory Update

November 2009
• Suction dredging update for California
• The anti-mining Congress

Melman on Gold & Silver

May 2001
If this past month has proved anything, it is the reversible nature of the rule that “what goes up must come down” which now also can read “what goes down must come up.”

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