Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices

October 1999 by Staff

Coprolite—A Prospector's Tale

February 2014
Gold nuggets come in all forms, but I never expected that dinosaur nuggets would too, and at a decent price.

China Will Put Rio Tinto Employees on Trial

March 2010
The Australian government confirmed it was notified that a Shanghai court will try the four Rio employees including an Australian national.

The Bawl Mill

June 2012
• Home, home on the range...where the deer and the non-native antelope play
• Today's math lesson: Study x 3 = Taxpayer Waste

In Pursuit of Gold and Silver in the Sierra Madres—Purchasing Land in Mexico

March 2007
My wife and I spent three years laying the groundwork to build a processing mill for gold, silver, lead and some zinc in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Northern Mexico, in the state of Sonora. In this installment, I describe how we purchased the land to build the new mill.

Squeezing Diamond Into Graphite

December 1999
A major diamond mystery has finally been cracked. For 40 years, scientists have tried but failed to apply so much pressure on the hard rocks that they would become something other than diamond. Now researchers reported that they succeeded.

The King Has No Clothes

February 2001
As green preservationist groups hail their King as he marches down Pennsylvania Avenue loudly proclaiming his land legacy proposals, I am reminded that it once took a child to remind a past king that he had no clothes.

North Korea Seeks Outside Help to Modernize Mining

March 2002
Eager to earn hard currency, isolated North Korea is trying to modernize its decrepit mining industry with foreign help.

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