Looking Back

July 2004 by Staff

Legislative and Regulatory Update

July 2012
• Forest Service proposes next step in Agenda 21
• 9th Circuit deals blow to small miners

Melman on Gold & Silver

November 2013
That is one of the problems with much of the so-called objective information we regularly receive—it is so tinged with partisanship that much of it can barely be believed...

Reinventing the Wheel—The Infinity-Jet

June 2004
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.

More on Detecting Pocket Gold

August 2017

What I hope to do here is to give you some information that will help you, the reader, pick out locations that will be better for you to detect and give you a possibility of finding gold.

The Eagle and High Peak Mines of Julian, California

September 2002
At an altitude of over 4,000 feet, in the mountainous terrain of eastern San Diego County, lies the once productive Julian Mining District. Beginning with placer prospecting in 1869, this area moved rapidly into underground quartz or vein mining for gold.

Fire Agate in Arizona

June 2002
Agate, a banded form of chalcedony (cryptocrystalline quartz), has been used as a gemstone for over 7,000 years. Romans cut and polished agate, and this practice was taken to new heights in Germany in the 16th century.

Looking Back

February 2007
Excerpts from California Mining Journal, our original title, published 50 years ago this month.

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