Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices

February 2000 by Staff

Investors Take a Shine to Platinum, Palladium

May 2010
Move over gold and make way for platinum and palladium. Investors are taking a shine to these lesser-known precious metals as their prices rise.

Ask The Experts: “Energy” coming from black sand?

January 2017

Q: I have a question/request regarding some black sand left from my Dad’s prospecting days.

Melman on Gold & Silver

September 1999
No single factor has been as important in the control of inflationary pressures over the past few years as the decline in commodity prices. As long as the cost of raw materials was declining, industry was able to produce goods with minimal increases in price.

Detecting Old Pocket Diggings

February 2013
Looking around, I could tell that this was an old hand-digging. As I walked around the perimeter of the digging I could see shovel and pick marks scratched on the clean, hard clay and bedrock.

Gold in Chihuahua, Mexico

January 2001
Chihuahua, about the size of Oregon, is Mexico’s largest state and one of its most prosperous, with a great influx of foreign capital. The capital city, Chihuahua (pop. 2 million), is 228 miles, by divided highway, south of El Paso, Texas. Topographically, the state can be divided into several provinces, from dry sandy deserts on the north and east, to the forested Sierra Madre Occidental on the west and southwest.

Ask the Experts

February 2014
Marketing other minerals recovered while gold mining

Legislative and Regulatory Update

May 2002
• Occupancy rules discussed
• Comment period open for small-scale mining and dredging in Oregon

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