Mining Ends in Leadville

March 1999 by Associated Press

Platinum Alley—The South American Zone of Wealth and Adventure

June 2008
California and Alaska have their reputation for gold mining wealth but they just don’t begin to compare with the huge wealth of gold and platinum found in the past and today in Colombia, Panama and Ecuador in western South America.

Picks & Pans: Dredging and Detecting in Sierra City

October 2003
Every year for the past several years I have taken a prospecting trip to Sierra City, California, to dredge on a friend’s claim. Sierra City is a historic gold rush town of a little more than 200 persons. Known mostly for its rich lode mines, it also had...

Gold Prospecting for Better or Worse: Of Mice and Men

September 2020

He got out his new salt gun and began searching for the source of the intruder. He soon isolated the sound to a point in the rafters above the stove.

Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices

August 2021

The Bawl Mill

June 2014
• IRS—Inept Resource Specialists
• A drought of common sense
• Thanks for your service, now please hold...

Mud Creek Placer Mine Adventure

March 2003
Gerald Lindsey sat at his desk watching Randy McKinney try to absorb the massive pile of documents he had in front of him. Julie Fowler, Gerald’s secretary of 13 years, tried not to concentrate on the tower of paper as it threatened to topple over. Gerald knew the contents contained data proving one of the richest gold fields in Alaska were on his claims. But how to convince Randy, who was a 4th generation miner and had heard every mining story in the book?

Looking Back

January 2005
Excerpts from California Mining Journal, our original title, published 50 years ago this month.

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