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Letter from the Editor to our Readers and Advertisers
January 2000 by Kenneth Harn
Well, as they say, "there's a time for everything and everything has it's time"—or something like that!The Lovitt Mine
Excerpts from Northwest Underground Explorations' soon-to-be published "Discovering Washington's Historic Mines, Volume 2—Mines of East Central Washington State."
Melman on Gold & Silver
Perhaps the heart of our pro-gold thesis is this consideration: governments are inherently inefficient, they attempt to provide services far beyond their genuine fiscal ability and these trends result in deficit financing, growing debt levels and ultimate “watering” down of currency values.
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Two million acres of proposed habitat
• Last chance for Nevada claim refunds
• California suction gold dredging update
Groups Plan to Sue Over Lynx Protection
Three environmental groups have served formal notice that they intend to sue the U.S. Forest Service for failing to protect the Canada lynx as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
Reinventing the Wheel—The Infinity-Jet
To all the miners who read the article, “New Life for the Suction Dredge,” printed in the December 2003 issue of ICMJ, I have an amusing update for you. I periodically go through my old back issues and I found the December 1981 issue very interesting.
The Montezuma Quadrangle, Summit County, Colorado
The Montezuma mining district of Summit County, Colorado, is a rugged, structurally complex area of the Rocky Mountains. Home to the first silver claim in Colorado, the Montezuma district hosts stockwork gold deposits, disseminated molybdenum, and abundant silver-bismuth veins.
Back to Basics--Finding Gold With a Pan and a Sluice
Don’t hunker down and just keep digging in one spot where there is very little or no gold—if you don’t find it, you’ve got to get up and move on!
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The Bawl Mill
• Over the Divide
• Our Readers Say
• Administration Considers Bypassing Congress
• First Woman to Draw Mining Pension
• Small Mine Selective Blasting
• Mohave Mountain Placers, Arizona
• High Court to Reconsider Wilderness Water Rights
• Sixteen to One Takes on MSHA
• Picks & Pans: Gold Mining on Joie Osgood Ranch
• Gold
• Company Notes
• Millie's Tailings
• Placer PGMs in Alaska
• Mogollon—New Mexico's Remote Gold Camp
• ICMJ 9th Annual Photo Contest Results
• The Other Minerals of Mt. Diablo
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
• Looking Back
