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Looking Back
November 2002 by Staff
Excerpts from California Mining Journal, our original title, published 50 years ago this month.The "Madonna Nugget"—A Weekend Hunt to Remember
I worked my way to a flat area along a ridge where I could see a quartz blowout. As I got within 100 feet of it, I started seeing rock that I knew to be associated with gold.
Detecting Old Ground Sluice Locations
Ground sluicing, surfacing and scratching are a few names given to the recovery of gold in shallow areas. Where I live, the hills are dotted with small surface diggings.
Flood Stage—The Key to Reading a River
We knew what to do—we moved our project far enough from the river to escape the two hundred foot shoreline rule. If the old man had been right we could do this and still be over the loop of pay dirt.
Over the Divide
David N. Skillings, Jr
Gold Prospecting in Gatesville, Indiana
Gatesville is not the only place to find easy public access for gold prospecting opportunities in Central Indiana.
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Trump cabinet forming
• Last minute regulations
• California suction dredging
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The Bawl Mill
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• Lamproites and Diamonds
• Working the Belmont Mine, Butte, Montana—1953 (Part 2)
• A Real Placer Miner
• Mojave Desert Gold
• Miner Unhappy After Judge Dismisses Charges
• Picks & Pans: Fig Tree, Grape Vine and Good Gold
• Sluicing on Bedrock
• Sandstone Silver in Texas
• A Few Prospecting Notes From Jim Straight
• Explorers to Salvage Gold-Laden Ship
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
