ICMJ 10th Annual Photo Contest Results

January 2001 by Staff

Drywashing for Eluvial Gold in the Desert—Using a Portable Drywasher and Hand Tools

February 2005
Often the gold being recovered by drywashing is too fine to be recovered by metal detecting. For every “detectable” nugget found, there could be hundreds of smaller flakes of non-detectable size. Thus, for those that “read the ground,” and snipe for areas of favorable placer concentration, drywashing will continue to be both an inexpensive...

Let’s Go Crevicing for Gold

January 2008
People have been looking for gold in every manner possible since the big gold boom in 1849, so what chance do we have of getting anything in today’s world where literally thousands of prospectors and fortune seekers have been before us?

Small-Scale Processing of Hard Rock Ores

December 2014
Depending on the ore and if significant sulfides are present, a hard rock miner may be able to get away with simply using a flux to digest the other minerals that may be present.

Confluence Placers

June 2013
Confluences of placer streams are well known as concentration sites for heavy minerals. The basic reason is that...

The Bawl Mill

April 2018

• “Pensions before Honesty. Great slogan.”
• An untimely death…

Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices

October 2008

Ask the Experts

March 2014
Gold in Minnesota?

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