Looking Back

December 2003 by Staff

Ask the Experts—Best way to identify calaverite and sylvanite

December 2011

Miners Fight Back When BLM Says 'Your Claim Is Too Long'

April 2020

BLM stated we had 30 days to amend our claim so that it fit within one 40-acre square or we would forfeit the claim.

ICMJ Online Forum Now Available

April 2013
We still have a few bugs to work out, but our new online forum is up and running.

Gold Miners Become Tungsten Miners

February 2001
The story begins in the early 1940s in Vance County, North Carolina, on a farm that belonged to the Hamme family. During spring plowing in 1942, one of the brothers accidentally plowed up an odd looking rock and took it home to show his younger brother who was studying geology at Duke University.

Eolian Placer Gold

February 2012
I would first like to mention that I am not a geologist. I have, however, spent the last 8 years intently searching for gold nuggets with a metal detector. I have found gold in numerous locations, and in several different types of gold deposits.

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February 2011

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April 2006

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