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How Much Gold Is In My Gold-Quartz Specimen?
June 2010 by Chris Ralph
The method is based on the fact that gold is much denser than quartz, and the more gold that is present in a specimen, the higher the density of the piece will be as a whole.
DOI Computers Back Online
You may have noticed that the Department of Interior’s (DOI) computers were disconnected for about 10 days during mid-March. The disconnected Internet service prevented miners and prospectors from accessing numerous online files, including all Bureau of Land Management websites and mining claim systems.
Ask The Experts: Could you expand on your previous blasting article?
Q: Could you write more about the last two methods that you mentioned—the expanding chemical mixtures and the micro blasters, how and when to use them, and when not to use them?
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• 3809 Regulations—Letter Drive
• Environmental groups infiltrate National Park Service
• Interior Secretary Gale Norton chasties environmentalists over Klamath lawsuit
• EPA requests comments on Maximum Contaminant Level rule
Gold Prospecting: For Better or Worse--It Was A Dark and Overcast Night
With one outstretched hand grasping the bottle and the other waving at air, I moved forward feeling for the tent. No tent. No tree.
Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
Rent, Lease, or Own Your Equipment
Today, renting, leasing, financing and outright purchasing are simply tools of the trade for many financial professionals.
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Our Federal Landlord
• One down, two to go
• Challenging timing windows in Washington State
• More roadblocks to mining
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The Bawl Mill
• Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Sluicing at Rocky Bar, Idaho
• Nine Pound Nugget Found In Northern California!
• Glaciers and Placer Gold Deposits
• Ask The Experts: Can you help me identify these items?
• Getting The Most Value From Your Gold-Quartz Specimens
• Highbanking and the House Rock
• Fix or Replace, Depreciate or Write-Off
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Mining Stock Quotes & Mineral and Metal Prices
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Update on Oregon, Idaho and California Suction Dredge Permits
• ECU Silver Mining Continues The Legacy
