Looking Back

October 2002 by Staff

A Changing Diamond Industry Looks to Canada for Growth

December 2000
Robert Gannicott speaks in almost spiritual tones about the position his small Canadian diamond company holds and the forces—both natural and economic—that put it there.

Ask the Experts

April 2014
Relationship between limestone and gold

Ask The Experts - Why is there no detector signal with pyrite?

September 2018

Alternative Gold Leaching Methods

January 2014
The ideal leaching chemical would leave behind what we don't want or need in the ore and take only the valuable metals.

Land of Golden Dreams—California in the Gold Rush Decade

November 1999
San Marino, California—"Boys, I believe I have found a gold mine!" With these simple words, an obscure New Jersey carpenter and mechanic named James W. Marshall set in motion a global cascade of events that dramatically shaped the social and economic life of California and the American West.

The Bawl Mill

July 2012
• Helium, going up, up and away...
• By the numbers...
• Unsustainable regulations...

Mining Law—A Short History

May 1999
The General Mining Law of 1872 is not antiquated, but its roots are ancient, stemming from Greek and Roman law, and continued in English and Spanish law. The recorded laws and practices of mining extend back nearly 3000 years.

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