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August 2000 by Staff
East Coast Dredger Heads West - Part I
Prospectors east of the Mississippi have their share of gold bearing property to explore and prospect upon. There’s plenty of undiscovered gold on the bottoms of the creeks and rivers running through the eastern gold belt.
Roads to Nowhere
What today appears to be a “road to nowhere” was once a road to somewhere. At today’s precious metal prices that somewhere can be of great importance to you.
Montana's Virginia City Has Golden Legacy
The discovery of gold at Alder Creek, centrally located in Madison County, Montana, was unusually well documented, with the date and time placed at May 26th, 1863, at about 4 o’clock in the afternoon. A group of six miners had been searching the area with little luck until the leader, Bill Fairweather, spotted an exposed area of promising bedrock. He dug up a shovel full of dirt and put it in Henry Edgar’s pan for washing. About the same time that Edgar was busy washing out the pan, Fairweather was poking around the bedrock with his pocketknife. Both spotted the color of gold at once.
Follow the Line
Four nuggets, ranging from one to four pennyweight, had been found originally. All four nuggets were found in a line about ten feet apart from each other.
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The Bawl Mill
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• August Hearing Set for Crandon Mine
• Montana Approves Stillwater Expansion Bonds
• Guest Editorial—Globalizing Mining in America, Part I
• Quartzsite, Arizona
• Groups Plan to Sue Over Lynx Protection
• Picks & Pans: Treasure Hawk Mine—Cutthroat Mining Corporation
• Company Notes
• Nuggetshooting Eluvial Placers in the Western United States
• 125 Years of Mining History in the Panamints
• Cuba Revisited
• 2000 National Mining Hall of Fame Inductees
• United States National Gold Panning Championships
• Melman on Gold & Silver
