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Melman Reports From PDAC—News About India, China, and a Potential Shortage of Nickel
April 2004 by Leonard Melman
PDAC’s (Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada) annual convention held each spring in Toronto, Ontario, Canada is generally regarded as the largest and most impressive annual gathering of the mining industry in the world.
Gold Depositiion and Gradients of Placer Streams—Part II
The steeper the gradient is, the more potential erosive power to move gold and other bedload sediments, and the more power to remove obstacles to flow.
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Change is coming at Interior
• Interior Department seeking public comment regarding minerals
The Significance of Nuggets in Placers
Chances are better that both types of gold did not come from the same source. Let's look at the probable conditions to cause two types of gold in a placer.
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Putting Together A Small Free Gold Mill
Most small-scale miners want to know how they can set up a system much more cheaply. The difficulty is in the balance of putting together a decent small-scale system at a reasonable cost.
The Bawl Mill
• EPA backs down in Wyoming
• UN Chairman took on more than a mission
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The Bawl Mill
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• Wyoming—A Land That Time (And Explorationists) Forgot
• Two Arrested in Alleged Mining Investment Scheme
• Wall-Rock Alteration
• Picks & Pans: Family's Identity Forged Working Nevada's Gold
• Researching Suitable Areas to Detect for Free-Milling Gold
• A Working Arrastra
• Training Videos From NIOSH
• The Golden Highway—Amador County
• Prospectores Unite in Washington State
• Flexible Circuits Possible From Gold Wire
• Looking Back
• Melman on Gold & Silver
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