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Looking Back
December 2003 by Staff
Excerpts from California Mining Journal, our original title, published 50 years ago this month.Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Assembly Bill 1032
• Cache County v. USFS
• CMA appeals cyanide ban
Trip to “The Swamp” on Behalf of Small Miners
Besides the EPA issue, our major priority is to work on the proposed amendment to the National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act (S 145), a bill proposed in the Senate by US Senator Dean Heller (R-Nevada).
Mining Boom Is Back In Northern Nevada
At the Gold Quarry open-pit mine, a massive electric shovel scoops 40 tons of earth in a single bite and dumps it into a 325,000-pound truck the size of a two-story house.
Nebraska Couple Finds Big Nugget in Arizona
Friends of Don and Marlene Doran often tease them about their hobby of searching for unique rocks. Now they are the ones laughing.
Detecting for Gold in Nevada
Within a few minutes I got my first signal and dug out a small flake about three grains.
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• The next step towards implementing the Wildlands Project
• Former timber lobbyist named to oversee Forest Service
Lucky Shot Mine and the Willow Creek Plutons
Once a thriving mining community, the town of Lucky Shot, Alaska, also known as Kellyville, is nowhere to be found today. Buildings were either hauled away or burned. The snow loads of the Talkeetna Mountains crushed some of...
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The Bawl Mill
• Searching for Placer Diamonds
• Lawsuit on Alleged Market Manipulation Continues
• Texas "Hill Country" Gold
• A Guide to Overlooked Gold Deposits—Part IV
• Picks & Pans: Detecting in Northern Nevada
• Miners Welcome Comments by Alaska Official
• Company Notes
• Spectacular Specimens Found in Northern Nevada
• New Life for the Suction Nozzle
• Oil Seeps in Arizona
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
