Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices

March 2005 by Staff

Picks & Pans: "Eye-Balling" for Alaskan Gold

May 1999
The gold miner held out his hand and showed me a sixteen-ounce gold nugget, slightly coarse in texture, and resembling a biscuit. I shook my head in amazement as he pointed out the exact location of his lucky find.

WANTED: Mining Poets, Singers & Storytellers

October 1999
The hard-learned lessons, humor, tragedies and issues of work in mining have long been the subject of poetry, stories, songs and visual art by mineworkers and their families.

Goldfield—Princess of the Mojave

May 2005
The sunbeams are winding their way through the snowclouds. I am rising out of Death Valley to engage in some reverie, a journey into times past. Prospect pits, phantoms from boom times’ extinct, appear on the side of the road. Soon, I enter the Bullfrog Mining District.

The Oquirrh Mountains, Utah

July 2013
...we will visit three dormant mining districts that lie in the Oquirrh Range in Utah. Some major activity that transformed the lives of thousands of people occurred here from the mid 1860s to the late 1990s.

Gold Hunting on Libby Creek

January 2018

The biggest nugget I have found detecting here was three grams and the following weekend someone found a 9-gram nugget while detecting. Some have even found quarter-ounce nuggets, with one being a chevron nugget.

The Bawl Mill

February 2012
• Unicorns, fairies and cellulosic biofuel
• Who wants to be a millionaire?

Melman on Gold & Silver

October 2013
I believe gold and silver prices, to at least some extent, negatively mirror the society's confidence in the ability of government to continue providing economic and social services.

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