Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices

July 2001 by Staff

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.

A Practical Approach to Dowsing

June 2003
The use of dowsing methods to locate underground minerals and materials has been a rather delicate subject for some time. A certain stigma has been automatically attached to both the methods employed and the persons who use these techniques.

The Bawl Mill

May 2007
• Trash full of cash
• Auditors audit the auditors
• I smell bacon

Legislative and Regulatory Update

February 2006
• Senate moves on ESA reform
• Suit challenges patenting
• Canyon takes its case to the Supreme Court

Crushing Quartz in Calaveras County: A Placer Miner Learns New Tricks

June 2014
I had never run an impact mill before, but anything involving rocks, water and a big electric motor sounded great.

Moore Creek, Alaska—Then and Now

June 2015
The gold was very chunky and much of it had quartz attached. Even back then I knew that the gold was very close to its source.

Picking Our Way Through Bedrock

December 2015
Once again the coil was put over the spot but the target was in the pile now. I pinpointed, grabbed a handful of dirt and began sprinkling it over the coil until I heard that mild thud.

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