Looking Back

July 2000 by Staff

Placer Channel Sampling

July 2013
Sampling gold placers can be rewarding, but remember to treat the samples so you are not high grading or low grading your results. Learn the rules and apply them so your samples are accurate.

Ask The Experts: Looking for help on unproven claim

February 2017

Looking for help on unproven claim

Melman on Gold & Silver

May 2001
If this past month has proved anything, it is the reversible nature of the rule that “what goes up must come down” which now also can read “what goes down must come up.”

Eolian Gold Deposits

February 2014
Prospectors who specialize in electronic detecting for nuggets in desert areas are especially interested in this type of deposit, as it yields nuggets that are close to the surface of the ground...

Looking Back

April 1999
Excerpts from California Mining Journal, our original title, published 50 years ago this month.

Allied Nevada Reactivates Hycroft Mine

May 2009
Because the gold here is not coarse enough to be recovered in a pan, the deposit was not recognized as holding any significant potential for precious metals until 1908...

Newmont Looks to Ghana

February 2006
Newmont Mining Corp. is intensifying a global hunt for the next mother lode of gold.

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