Identifying Gold Ores

February 2001 by Charles L. Butler

Are There Any Good Prospects Left?

November 2013
This type of thinking will get you discouraged pretty fast, and soon all of your mining equipment will be found gathering dust in your garage.

Ask The Experts - What is this sample worth?

April 2019

Legislative and Regulatory Update

May 2022

• Environmental groups push for more ESA listings
• Proposed grant program to recruit mining engineering students

Gold Dredgers Rescue Threatened Fish

May 2004
Gold dredgers were enlisted in an effort to salvage a rare stretch of chum salmon spawning grounds along the Columbia River between Vancouver, Washington, and Portland, Oregon.

Gold Deposits Of South Carolina

September 2008
Gold was first discovered in South Carolina in 1827 in placer deposits near the Haile Mine, which later became the largest gold producer in the southeastern states. The Carolina belt is the most extensive and most productive...

Legislative and Regulatory Update

June 2003
• Comment period reopened for pygmy owl critical habitat in Arizona
• Limits on wilderness study areas finalized in Utah
• IBLA rules miner cannot set up store processing equipment on claim when no mining is taking place
• New law to protect claims and equipment in Washington State

Picks & Pans: An Exciting Hobby

January 2001
The year was 1946, the war was over, and we three brothers were working for Douglas Aircraft, in Santa Monica, California. Jim and I had returned to jobs we held before entering the Navy and George was a “new hire,” having just finished a four-year hitch as a Navy Flight Crewman.

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