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Michigan DEQ Gives Tentative OK to Nickel, Copper Mine
February 2007 by John Flesher
Environmentalists were happy when the state adopted rules governing an underground mining method that hadn’t been tried in Michigan. Now they’re angry.Introduction to Meteorites
The distribution of meteorites across the planet was, at one time, thought to be random and unpredictable.Michigan DEQ Approves Upper Peninsula Mine
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality approved permits allowing Kennecott Minerals, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto, to operate a nickel and copper mine in the Upper Peninsula.
Miner Unhappy After Judge Dismisses Charges
Don Eno, a well-known miner and prospector in Plumas National Forest, is the Public Affairs Director of the Lost Sierra Mining & Historical Association and the Northern Office for Public Lands for the People (PLP). He was issued a citation for violating Forest Order 03-98—“camping for longer than 30 days per calendar year...”
Ask The Experts: Sulfides and fluxes
The concentrate is just the heaviest of the heavy minerals but some sulfides are sneaking in there also with the gold...
Resurrecting An Old Hard Rock Mine
There were nice sections of vein material at the end of several drifts, like they just stopped work one day and walked away.
Sam, the Tenderfoot Prospector
There were many thousands of tenderfoot, greenhorn prospectors that came out west in the 1860s and 70s. Some came to make their fortunes; some came to flee other problems back east; and some just came for the adventure. Probably every one had a tale to tell, but one of these adventurous individuals was a young man named Sam, and this is his true story.
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The Bawl Mill
• Prospectors Beat Mining Claim Tax
• In Pursuit of Gold and Silver in the Sierra Madres—Establishing a Mining Company in Mexico
• Update On “Special Rock” Kicking
• Saved Before the Tax Bell Tolled
• The Petersville—Yentna Goldfields
• Demand for Copper Boosts Zambian Mining
• Doc Livingston
• Bum Luck
• San Manuel Mine Officially Closes With a Bang
• Environmentalists Target Pebble Mine
• Detecting in Australia's Pilbara Region
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
• Looking Back
