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Looking Back
March 2002 by Staff
Excerpts from California Mining Journal, our original title, published 50 years ago this month.Legislative and Regulatory Update
• The good, the bad, and the ugly
• California and Oregon dredge permits
Gold in Alaska

Synclinal Oil
Most oilfields are found in anticlinal faults, or stratigraphic traps. Oil floats on water, so that it will rise to the highest point possible, above the water. If the porous or fractured sandstone or limestone that contains the oil is overlain by impervious shale, the oil can no longer rise. If the porous bed is arched upward...
Common Operations—Small-Scale Mining and Sharing the "Take"

Roads to Nowhere
What today appears to be a “road to nowhere” was once a road to somewhere. At today’s precious metal prices that somewhere can be of great importance to you.
Miner's Cabin—Red Shack Territory

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The Bawl Mill
• Our Readers Say
• Greens Force Strategic Mine Out of Business
• Silver Strike in Happy Camp, California
• Gold in New Hampshire
• Fabled 1933 Gold Coin Up For Sale
• The Douglas Creek Placer District, Medicine Bow Mountains, Southeastern Wyoming
• Picks & Pans: The California State Nugget
• Aerial Photos
• Mojave Desert Placer Mining
• Mining Camp Adventures—The Collinsville-Twin Creek Goldfields
• Monetary Freedom and Accountability Act
• Company Notes
• North Korea Seeks Outside Help to Modernize Mining
• Aussie Gold—A Look at Tasmania
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices