Looking Back

May 2001 by Staff

Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices

September 2009

Looking Back

March 2002
Excerpts from California Mining Journal, our original title, published 50 years ago this month.

Progress Report on Washington State Small-Scale Regulations

April 2005
Washington State has some of the most far-reaching, restrictive and overzealous regulations in the United States regarding small-scale prospecting and mining. Take one look at the “Gold and Fish” book, which lays out regulations for...

Agreement Allows Pogo Mine to Resume Construction

June 2004
An agreement between developer Teck-Pogo and an environmental group will allow construction work to resume on the Pogo gold mine.

Prospecting With a Magnetometer

December 1999
Swedes were the first to note variations in the Earth's magnetic field, circa 1640, and they were the first to use the dip needle. They made the first magnetometer in 1870.

Melman Reports From PDAC—News About India, China, and a Potential Shortage of Nickel

April 2004
PDAC’s (Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada) annual convention held each spring in Toronto, Ontario, Canada is generally regarded as the largest and most impressive annual gathering of the mining industry in the world.

Melman on Gold & Silver

June 2006
One of our favorite lines can be attributed to former New York Yankee great Yogi Berra when he declared, “It’s deja vu all over again!” Well, during the past month, that seems to be the case as headline after headline has been recurring with amazing frequency.

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