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Mining Ends in Leadville
March 1999 by Associated Press
An era ended in Leadville February 4, when the last miners left the Black Cloud mine and hung up their brass tags for the last time.Prospector Finds Cache of Emeralds in North Carolina
"This is just the tip of the iceberg," Hill said. "It's going to take 200 years to dig it all out."
Investors Take a Shine to Platinum, Palladium
Move over gold and make way for platinum and palladium. Investors are taking a shine to these lesser-known precious metals as their prices rise.
A Working Arrastra
If everything you see, the men, the animals, the crude mechanism that grinds gold from rock, everything around you, looks to be from centuries ago, if the mysterious sound you hear is pure history and the smell around you is primitive, if the earth beneath your feet quivers with untold strangeness; and, the taste in your mouth sweeps time out of mind then, if all of this happens at once, if every one of your five senses has taken you into the past, then you’ve traveled back in time.
Melman on Gold & Silver
Perhaps the heart of our pro-gold thesis is this consideration: governments are inherently inefficient, they attempt to provide services far beyond their genuine fiscal ability and these trends result in deficit financing, growing debt levels and ultimate “watering” down of currency values.
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• Death Valley Find is Apparent Hoax
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• The Federal Land Survey System
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• The Beer That Saved Goldfield
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• Forest Service Chief Calls for Mining Moratorium in Montana
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• Claim Staking Rush Northern Quebec, Canada
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