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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
Detecting the Fringe Areas
One prime example is an area that I have talked about in many of my articles. This is a very large area and I will actually describe its location again.
Gold at Mercury Mines
There are numerous old mercury (quicksilver) mines in the central Coast Ranges of California, from San Benito County on the south to Lake County on the north, a distance of 225 miles.
Melman on Gold & Silver
Deadlines are something we must live with at ICMJ as with any other publication, and as this columnist’s deadline approached early Tuesday morning of September 11, I turned on the financial channel to get some last pre-market commentary before completing this month’s column. What I saw was virtually beyond belief. A jetliner had just crashed into one of the two towers of the World Trade Center...
Prospecting for Liberated Gold
Some will doubt its value given the ultra-fine particle size… Some will become encouraged about not having to incur significant time and expense to break rock.
The Bawl Mill
Highbanking on the Feather River
A number of visiting gold miners were quite impressed with our operation and the amount of gold we had recovered in only three hours. No one usually likes digging and slugging buckets all day long, but we actually began to enjoy it after a few good...
A Primer on Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies—Part II
We’ll conclude by digging a bit more into the regulations and pitfalls, and discuss what they are used for, their relationship to gold, and what the future holds.
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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
Free:
Metals Trader Blows the Whistle on Gold & Silver Price Manipulation
• Oregon Requires Permit for Hand Sluicing
• California Water Board Tries to Restrict Dredging







