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IBLA Limits Patent to Mineral Rights in Wild & Scenic River Corridors
March 1999 by Guest Writer
The following was excerpted from a published decision of Interior Department Office of Hearings and AppealsPlacer & Lode Gold Deposits
Even though there are many varieties of gold deposits, prospectors often refer to two general types: placer and lode. Some lode examples include...
Melman on Gold & Silver
If there was one word that characterized news events of the past month it was “uncertainty.” Would the United States hand over the government of Iraq to the newly-installed leadership? Would the Fed at long last raise interest rates, and, if so, by how much? Would the new pattern of sabotage against oil pipelines in Iraq...
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