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Hardrock in Downieville
November 2000 by Mark Mallicoat
A recent weekend trip found us leaving the Grass Valley, California area to meet up with some friends in Downieville.El Paso Mountains Mining History
The El Paso Mountains of California are located in the extreme northwestern portion of the Mojave Desert, between Highways 14 and 395, about twenty miles southwest of China Lake. The area is rich in mining history, not far from the great Randsburg district gold mines that are still producing today.
BLM Cancels 10-Million-Acre Sage Grouse Mineral Withdrawal
The very way it was done at the time didn’t give one much confidence in the objectivity and honesty of the BLM study.
Mining Battle Case Under Advisement
Two weeks of sometimes-heated testimony have ended in a case that pits Cyprus Amax Minerals against opponents who want to prevent the company from mining ore from a central Colorado mountain.
Melman on Gold & Silver
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.”
Adding Shine to Your Portfolio
As inflation fears grow, some advisers are steering their clients into precious or industrial metals as a way to add luster to portfolios.
Picks & Pans: Dredging at Douglas Creek, Wyoming
Labor Day! The last chance of the year to do some dredging in Wyoming. Wyoming’s dredging season runs from June through the Labor Day weekend.
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Update on suction gold dredging
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The Bawl Mill
• Our Readers Say
• Enrichment of Gold Veins
• The Assay of High Iron Gold Ores
• The Patch
• History of Mining—Bradshaw Mountains, AZ (Part I)
• Picks & Pans—The Green Rock, Rattlesnakes, Good Gold and Ruth's Mine
• The Oretron
• Silver Hill, North Carolina
• Residual, Lateritic and Gossan "Soils" as Potential Nuggetshooting Sites
• Looking Back
• Company Notes
• Gold in Northern Baja California
• California State Gold Panning Championship Results
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• V.P. Contender Addresses Mining Show
