Looking Back

December 1999 by Staff

Ruling Awards Giant Nugget to Finder

June 2000
A court ruled that a taxi driver and amateur prospector who unearthed a 14.5-pound (6.6-kg) gold nugget on someone else's land is allowed to keep it.

Ask the Experts - Processing sulfide ore without mercury or cyanide.

February 2012
Q: ...Is there any way to process the ore without using mercury or cyanides...?

Huge Nugget To Be Auctioned

May 1999
A 56-pound (25-kilogram) nugget belonging to an Australian prospector is 80 percent to 90 percent high-purity gold, University of Southern California scientists confirmed recently.

Mining Expedition at Eagle Rock—Part I

May 2009
We spent the winter and spring months obtaining all of the prospecting and camping gear that would be needed to sustain the five of us for 14 days on the river.

Picks & Pans: Dredging Costa Rica

October 2001
My interest in gold mining began with a few friends who, knowing that I was a chemist by trade (never mind that I am a biochemist), interrogated me every day at the gringo coffee shop in San Jose, Costa Rica.

Ask the Experts

May 2014
Gold and silver in Pennsylvania

Miner Unhappy After Judge Dismisses Charges

November 2002
Don Eno, a well-known miner and prospector in Plumas National Forest, is the Public Affairs Director of the Lost Sierra Mining & Historical Association and the Northern Office for Public Lands for the People (PLP). He was issued a citation for violating Forest Order 03-98—“camping for longer than 30 days per calendar year...”

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