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Looking Back
August 2005 by Staff
Excerpts from California Mining Journal, our original title, published 50 years ago this month.Additional articles that might interest you...
Hardrock Detecting
October 2002
A local mining company had been mining in the Circle mining district area creeks in interior Alaska for sixteen years. Using bulldozers, drag-lines, water pumps, and large sluicing plants, the owner-operator was very familiar with the geology...

The Federal Land Survey System
March 1999
When the thirteen original colonies were laid out in what is now part of the United States, they used the English system of metes and bounds.

ICMJ's 11th Annual Photo Contest Results
January 2002
As usual, the decision process was extremely difficult, but we managed to pick our 10 winners.
As usual, the decision process was extremely difficult, but we managed to pick our 10 winners.
Legislative and Regulatory Update
November 2003
• Comments needed from small-scale miners in Oregon
• News from the House and Senate
• Governor shows support for mining
• Comments needed from small-scale miners in Oregon
• News from the House and Senate
• Governor shows support for mining
The Bawl Mill
November 2013
• There's a fungus among us
• Taxpayers crash land in Arizona
• "What did you get arrested for?"
• There's a fungus among us
• Taxpayers crash land in Arizona
• "What did you get arrested for?"
Prospecting for Commercial-Scale Gold Deposits
March 2009
While most individual prospectors out there are searching for placer gold, there is a different type of prospecting being done by a handful of individuals—the search for commercially viable large-scale gold and silver deposits.

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