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Mining Law—A Short History
May 1999 by Jonathan DuHamel

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New Interim Rules For Washington Miners
New Interim Rules may be coming soon in the state of Washington.
Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
Company to Sue Over Stymied Gold Mine
A Colorado company that saw its plans for a big Montana gold mine derailed by a 1998 voter initiative says it will sue the state for hundreds of millions of dollars, to cover loss of the project.
All About Native Silver
Some of the wire forms are strange and fantastic, with wires sticking out in twisted, seemingly random directions. Others have deformed crystals and all of them have significant value to collectors.
Colorado to California for Gold
The total after a great day added with the previous days put them up to 9.07 pennyweight—just under a one-half ounce of beautiful California gold.
Melman on Gold & Silver
Another area of growing international concern for business and industry is the recent astonishing proliferation of new government regulations and laws. Despite the presumably good intentions behind these measures it is now becoming apparent that they are imposing true costs to our economic society. The sheer variety of these laws and regulations is mind-boggling.
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The Bawl Mill
• Industry Urges Restraint on Mining Reforms
• Environmentalists Back FS on Mining Withdrawl
• Our Readers Say
• Open Letter to the BLM
• Huge Nugget To Be Auctioned
• Platinum Group Metals
• Company Notes
• Gold at Mercury Mines
• The Lovitt Mine
• Picks & Pans: "Eye-Balling" for Alaskan Gold
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
• Looking Back
• Oil and Gas in Washington
• As Millennium Nears, Copper No Longer King in Arizona
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