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In Pursuit of Gold and Silver in the Sierra Madres—Buying the Pilot Mill

In 2005, my wife and I, along with our supervisor Horacio, made numerous business and supply trips from Arivechi, Sonora, to the capital of Sonora, Hermosillo. This is a distance of 135 miles along a very narrow paved mountain road.

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Alaska's Cripple Creek Mining District


If developed with metal detecting in mind, this virgin ground could be a bonanza for nugget hunting.

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The lights are on again in the Sunshine silver mine as a New Orleans company investigates whether it is profitable to buy the operation.

Gold Prospecting for Better or Worse: Tangling With A Desert Monster


It all occurred when Gus and I returned to a remote placer gold area where we had previously found really good gold. The problem was that it would take about an hour to walk through the desert to get to it.

State May Re-Examine Plans on Dredge Use Near Hope


The State Division of Governmental Coordination said it should have been asked to review the project a year ago to make sure the mine complies with the Alaska Coastal Zone Management Plan.

The Fire Assay of Fly Eyes


Colorado-Utah-Wyoming oil shale was first reliably discovered to contain gold and silver by the U.S. Bureau of Mines in the 1920s. Although most of this vast shale resource, up to 1,000 feet in thickness, contained nil or barely detectable values, many brown shale samples fire assayed here over the past thirty years have yielded up to 0.02 ounces per ton (opt) Au and 2.0 opt Ag.

1999 National Mining Hall of Fame Inductees


Ceremonies to induct 1999s nominees into the National Mining Hall of Fame will be held Sunday October 10,
1999 at the Adam's Mark Hotel in St. Louis, MO.

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