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Melman on Gold & Silver
January 2005 by Leonard Melman
The year 2004 feels much like the fabled month of March, entering like a lion, remaining stormy for much of the time, but exiting like a lamb. It is almost eerie how there has been a reduction of tension throughout the investment communities, both conventional and precious metals, in the past few weeks.Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Forest Service proposes further changes to mining regs
• Preble’s mouse resurrected
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Partial win for miners
• California suction dredging
• Feds continue to push for more public lands
• Idaho suction dredging
Turning Waste Rock Into Profit
When others saw piles of waste rock at the former LTV Steel Mining property, Brad Gerlach saw opportunity.
Ask the Experts
Ore testing and other advice for starting up a mining operation.
California's Original Sixteen to One Mine
The Sixteen to One mine is located in the little town of Alleghany, 40 miles from Nevada City, in Northern California. It has less than sixty residents. The town sits at an altitude of 4,500 feet. In 1885, the town was named by a group of miners...
The Bawl Mill
• $5.1 billion Postal (dis)Service loss...
• Stop the money flow...
• Doubly, even triply, irresponsible and unpatriotic...
The Bawl Mill
• Insert your own title...
• A good travel agent is hard to find...
• What’s a “surplus?”
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The Bawl Mill
• Convention Report
• Interview with Congressman Gibbons on Mining Law Reform
• The Art of Finding Coarse Gold Part II—Pocket Hunting for Residual Placers
• Gold Canyon Resources Targets Gallium
• Tucson Mountain Chaos
• Picks & Pans: Auburn Ravine Gold
• Suit Filed to Stop Mining in Northern California
• Niobium and Tantalum
• The Iola Mine Group, Montgomery County, North Carolina
• Effectively Using a Detector and Drywasher for Placer Gold
• Mining Companies Use Conservative Valuations
• Company Notes
• Accident at Robinson Mine Leaves Two Dead
• Looking Back
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
