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Looking Back
August 2002 by Staff
Excerpts from California Mining Journal, our original title, published 50 years ago this month.Picks & Pans: How to Succeed in a Small Mine, A Case History: 1990-2000

The Bawl Mill
• Government discovers new method to subsidize airlines
• California uses environmentalists' favorite tool against them
• Delayed gratification
• Hold my seat; I'll be right back...
Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
Grizzly Flats, California—Another Mother Lode Gold Rush Town
We chatted for a bit and then we had to take off, but I kept what he said in the back of my mind as we rushed out to some other gold-bearing place in the Mother Lode to feed our gold fever.
US Files Charges Against Gold Refiner
Authorities filed criminal charges against one of the largest gold refiners in the United States, accusing the company of participating in an illegal, $4.5 million money-laundering operation involving tainted gold from South America for at least four months.
Dealing With Hot Rocks and Mineralization
What about all that noise coming from the ground? What is a prospector supposed to do about that?
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The Bawl Mill
• Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife Raises Harassment of Miners to a New Level
• Oregon Miners File Suit Against Fisheries Service
• BLM Land Swap Deal Raises Eyebrows
• Gold in Nevada
• The Greenhorn
• Striking Gold
• The Bombarded 38' Parallel
• Picks & Pans: The Trophy Hunt
• Corner Country Gold
• Something to Consider When You Go Dredging
• Western Mining Artifact Collectors Show
• Rattlesnakes
• The Gold Hill and Iowa Mine 1895-1938
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices