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Looking Back
January 2001 by Staff
Excerpts from CMJ published 50 years ago this month.News from the Editor
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• Answer the questions or we'll be forced to really bother you for a little while
• Some especially well-preserved mobile homes...
Looking Back
Excerpts from California Mining Journal, our original title, published 50 years ago this month.
Beginner's Luck
Their first cleanup total was more gold than they had ever found. These guys were deliriously overjoyed with their good fortune.
Ask The Experts: Equipment to break up heavy clay
Q: I am looking for a “trommel machine” that doesn’t separate anything but clay slurry from rock hard clay.
Ask The Experts
Any good books on mineralized faults and contacts?
Gondwana Gold Gravels
The German scientist, Alfred Wegener, came out with his theory of "continental drift" in 1912. He was considered a crackpot and it was half a century before geologists and planetary scientists began to take a second look at his theory.
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• Over the Divide
• Our Readers Say
• Special Editorial: Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Believes They Have the Evidence
• World Gold Council News
• Metal Detecting Within the Cordillera for Gold Placers Associated With Tertiary Epithermal Ore Deposits
• Picks & Pans: An Exciting Hobby
• Prospecting for Silver With a Geiger Counter
• The Furnace Atmosphere During the Fire Assay
• The Hanging Tree
• Gold in Chihuahua, Mexico
• ICMJ 10th Annual Photo Contest Results
• Melman on Gold & Silver
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