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July 2007 by Staff

Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices

November 2001

The Lost Silver Triangle of the Sierra Madre—Part I

April 2008
The North American continent harbors a vast mountain fastness that few Anglo-Americans have seen—an awesome land cut by perpendicular canyons and towering peaks, a forbidding wilderness virtually unchanged...

Picks & Pans: Basic Dry Washing Operations in Gold Placer Mining

September 1999
Some of the advantages of dry washing operations are low overhead costs (inexpensive methods and equipment), and the fact that many mining operations can be conducted by one or two individuals.

Alternative Gold Leaching Methods

January 2014
The ideal leaching chemical would leave behind what we don't want or need in the ore and take only the valuable metals.

Where to Start: Advice for the Beginning Detectorist

October 2019

Gold can show up in unexpected places at times, so I don’t like to tell people where not to look. An exception is where the gold is likely to be very deep.

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