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Melman on Gold & Silver
May 1999 by Leonard Melman
For gold advocates, the theme this past month could have been Life should be beautiful! After all, just consider some of the events of the past month.Goldfield—Princess of the Mojave
The sunbeams are winding their way through the snowclouds. I am rising out of Death Valley to engage in some reverie, a journey into times past. Prospect pits, phantoms from boom times’ extinct, appear on the side of the road. Soon, I enter the Bullfrog Mining District.
Desert Bonanza

The Koyukuk-Nolan Goldfields

Gold Prospecting for Better or Worse: Doomed from the Start
The dredge and our gear, with us clinging on to the sides, bounced along until it got hung up on a large boulder in the middle of the river.
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