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Legislative and Regulatory Update
May 2010 by Scott Harn
• DOI backs mill sites• Arizona goes to bat for miners
• Battles continue in California
• Climate change legislation
Ask The Experts: Equipment to break up heavy clay
Q: I am looking for a “trommel machine” that doesn’t separate anything but clay slurry from rock hard clay.
The Canton Lead
As the great Australian gold rushes of the 1850s gathered momentum, hopeful prospectors rushed from all parts of the globe, not least among these were the ubiquitous Chinese.
Hillside Placers
Hills and mountains that contain gold deposits will weather and erode over a long period of time, and the eroded material will move slowly downhill. Frost wedging and roots are two of several agents that can cause bedrock to be fractured and...
The Bawl Mill
• Credit card abuse is sky high...
• Expensive new bill
• Senators reward themselves with another raise
Canadian Arrow Tries Different Approach
Timmins, Ontario, is a fascinating city for miners to observe. During periods of strong mining activity, Timmins prospers, home values rise, retail activity increases, vacant office spaces fill up and so forth. However, during periods of...
Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
Melman on Gold & Silver
Yet another term has entered the lexicon of investment analysis and that term is “Fallen Angels.” No, we are not referring to religious icons or celestial bodies. Rather, the investment community has dubbed the debt instruments of once-prosperous companies that have now fallen on hard times with that moniker.
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The Bawl Mill
• Ask The Experts: How to handle gold in cyanide; how to sample a platinum deposit
• Prospecting for Hardrock Gold - "Eureka!" (Part III)
• Gold Prospecting in Maine - Part II
• American Manganese
• Detecting for Gold in Australia
• Investors Take a Shine to Platinum, Palladium
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Mining Stock Quotes & Mineral and Metal Prices
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Metals Trader Blows the Whistle on Gold & Silver Price Manipulation
• Oregon Requires Permit for Hand Sluicing
• California Water Board Tries to Restrict Dredging
