Hijackers Make Off With 660 Pounds of Gold

December 1999 by Associated Press

Melman on Gold & Silver

January 2014
I must admit to taking some degree of pleasure in anticipating the excuse-making which will probably come out of the "Global Warming" camp to explain away a truly startling announcement.

Once Lonely, Mojave Desert Phone Now World's Companion

November 1999
Now, from all corners of the world, at all hours of the day and night, people call, trying to reach out and touch someone. Anyone, really, who might happen to be passing by when the Mojave Phone Booth starts ringing.

Melman on Gold & Silver

November 2012
Every so often, deadlines are a real pain in the neck! That is truly the case this month as we must complete these musings prior to the Vice Presidential debates as well as the last two Obama-Romney encounters.

El Tigre—Unlocking Values in Tailings to Jumpstart a Mine

May 2012
...El Tigre Silver Corp, is taking a somewhat different path toward developing their El Tigre property located in the northern Mexican state of Sonora.

Ask The Experts

January 2016
Gold nuggets and serpentine contacts

Dry Lakes in Nevada

October 1999
Desert dry lakes are the final resting place for many of the metals and compounds found within their drainage basins. Some, like Humboldt and Carson Sinks, have enormous drainage basins which include may highly-mineralized districts.

Picks & Pans: Treasure Hawk Mine—Cutthroat Mining Corporation

August 2000
The Treasure Hawk mine was operated by "Crazy Eddie" Bounsall from 1972 until 1988. He died in 1994, and I purchased the Treasure Hawk claims from his wife Betty in 1996.

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