Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices

December 2004 by Staff

Hillside Placers

July 2003
Hills and mountains that contain gold deposits will weather and erode over a long period of time, and the eroded material will move slowly downhill. Frost wedging and roots are two of several agents that can cause bedrock to be fractured and...

Using Rock Formations to Your Advantage

June 2005
Over the past twenty or more years, the traditional “seat of the pants” science of using mineral identification tables as a means to identify common ore minerals, their associated rock-forming minerals and rocks, has slowly become a lost art.

Placer Platinum

June 2004
The platinum group metals (PGMs) are divided into three that are “light,” about the same atomic weight as silver, and three that are “heavy,” about the same atomic weight as gold. The three light PGMs are ruthenium, rhodium, and palladium, and the three heavy PGMs are osmium, iridium, and platinum.

Recluse Died with $7 Million in Gold

October 2012
A Carson City recluse whose body was found in his home at least a month after he died left only $200 in his bank account.

Looking Back

March 1999
Excerpts from California Mining Journal, our original title, published 50 years ago this month.

Our Readers Say

August 2005
• Re: ICMJ's Mine Market ads
• "The enjoyment of prospecting"

Future of Mining in Bolivia Uncertain

April 2006
The miners offer the still-beating hearts of four freshly-sacrificed llamas to a statue of the fiendish god “El Tio,” who they believe affords them protection and good luck.

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