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Here Come the MineBots

In March 2004, Vulcan, a mine exploring robot from the Discovery Miner Program, was shipped to the Vulture City region to investigate the conditions of an abandoned hard rock mine. The shaft was typical of the dangerous mines that are...

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The Carissa Gold Mine, South Pass, Wyoming—A Sleeper?


The Carissa is part of a patented group of claims (private property) near South Pass City in the southern Wind River Mountains of western Wyoming. The mine lies a short distance southeast of State Highway 28 which runs north to Lander and provides excellent access to the area.

Detecting Old Ground Sluice Locations


Ground sluicing, surfacing and scratching are a few names given to the recovery of gold in shallow areas. Where I live, the hills are dotted with small surface diggings.

Gold in the Chinle Formation


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…the men sought to “inject false and misleading information about the genuine supply and demand for precious metals futures contracts into the markets, and to deceive other participants”…

NAS Agrees to Review Superfund Science


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The Tangential Impulse Water Wheel in California Gold Mining History—Part I


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