Miners Claim Victory in Fight That Began with Protest

August 1999 by Associated Press

Ask The Experts—Amalgamation

January 2011
Q: Exactly how does amalgamation work? Does it “melt” the gold (or copper, or silver, etc.) and form an alloy? If one leaves a piece of gold in mercury, will the entire sample become an amalgam (combination) of gold and mercury? Or does it only affect the surface...

Prospectors Protest San Gabriel Mountains National Monument

October 2015
More than 100 gold prospectors gathered at Azusa Canyon in the recently declared San Gabriel Mountains National Monument in southern California to voice their concerns…

Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices

October 2017

Basic Geology for the Independent Miner—Part I Recognizing and Understanding Minerals

January 2006
Many individual prospectors would like to know a little more about the geology of gold deposits. There is no doubt that in the final analysis, no matter how well you operate your equipment, unless you can find the places where gold is...

IBLA Limits Patent to Mineral Rights in Wild & Scenic River Corridors

March 1999
The following was excerpted from a published decision of Interior Department Office of Hearings and Appeals

Picks & Pans: Tips for Nuggestshooting—How to Increase Your Gold Finds (Part I)

April 2000
From a prospector's standpoint, the metal detector may be one of the most significant breakthroughs of the twentieth century. It is believed that the first metal detector was discovered accidentally in 1925 when a radio engineer...

PLP Update

February 2019

We now have supporters who are well known and connected in Washington, DC, and who state they will assist us in bypassing lower level staffers and getting us face-to-face meetings with Senators.

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