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Identifying Gold Ores

The following “clues” describing “hard rock gold ores,” while not 100% dependable, certainly will give gold prospectors an advantage:

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Greenstone Belts in Minnesota


Greenstone is a dark greenish-black basaltic rock which, along with chloritized schist, forms belts up to 50 miles wide in northern Minnesota, in rocks of Late Archean age. Most belts are 2.6 to 2.9 billion years old.

NMFS Official Admits Bogus ESA Analyses


In its typical ham-handed approach to limiting government power, Congress specified that “critical habitat shall not include the entire geographical area which can be occupied by the threatened or endangered species”...

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Nevada Gold Value Up Along With Production


Nevada gold mines produced only about 6 percent more gold in 2010 than they did the year before, but the value of that gold was up a whopping 33 percent.

Legislative and Regulatory Update


• AB 1032 on Governor’s desk
• Shasta Miners take on DFG

Cobalt and Nickel in Missouri


Cobalt and nickel are tough silver-white metals, with similar physical properties, that frequently occur together in nature, along with copper sulfides. Cobalt and nickel are used as alloys, providing great strength and resistance...

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