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Looking Back
January 2000 by Staff
Excerpts from CMJ, our original title, published 50 years ago this month.The Importance Of Mining Critical Minerals In The USA
Critical minerals are products that the government has designated as critical to our national interest because of both their potential military and industrial applications.
Tight Budgets Force Forest Service to Cut Back
Seasonal wilderness-area rangers have been among the first to go as Forest Service managers juggle budget demands.
Melman on Gold & Silver
People who want to believe that the sky is falling or the end of the (economic) world is at hand sure had ammunition thrown at them by the bucketfuls in the past month.
Stamp Mills
Stamp mills were a proven method of proccessing in early mining.
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The Bawl Mill
• Over the Divide
• Our Readers Say
• Letter from the Editor to our Readers and Advertisers
• Administration Considers Bypassing Congress
• First Woman to Draw Mining Pension
• Small Mine Selective Blasting
• Mohave Mountain Placers, Arizona
• High Court to Reconsider Wilderness Water Rights
• Sixteen to One Takes on MSHA
• Picks & Pans: Gold Mining on Joie Osgood Ranch
• Gold
• Company Notes
• Millie's Tailings
• Placer PGMs in Alaska
• Mogollon—New Mexico's Remote Gold Camp
• ICMJ 9th Annual Photo Contest Results
• The Other Minerals of Mt. Diablo
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices