Looking Back

July 1999 by Staff

Vindication for Montana Veteran Joe Robertson

August 2019

Under the previous administration, the EPA declared the ditch was a federally-protected waterway, and Robertson needed a federal permit under the Clean Water Act.

Legislative and Regulatory Update

February 2016

• California suction dredging trial resumes

• USFS tries unique method to restrict gold dredging in Idaho

• Defiant dredgers tell State of Oregon to “drop dead”

Ask The Experts—Inconsistent fire assays

November 2011
Q: ...He consistently comes up with values much higher on the same ore samples.

Detectors Versus Pans

November 2010
Mike scored the best with a total of one-half ounce of gold nuggets. Tom, Brian and Greg each had pieces in the one and a half pennyweight range. The rest of us had small gold and nothing like these three.

California Wilderness Coalition and The Nature Conservancy Recruit Government Employees to Carry Out Huge Land Grab

May 2002
US Geological Survey, US Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and California State Employees Attend Environmental Extremist Conference.

Underground Geologic Mapping

February 2000
Mapping geology underground is not difficult if one knows the procedures. This article presents the procedures that will allow any miner to produce a geologic map of their workings.

Looking Back

July 2007
Excerpts from California Mining Journal, our original title, published 50 years ago this month.

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