Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices

August 1999 by Staff

Goal Setting and Rock Tossing

February 2021

Day three was a copy of day two. I started real low in the long wash to see if I could prove how far down the gold had made it.

Prospecting with a VLF-Type Gold Detector

October 2004
Although I found my first detected nugget on a hard rock mine dump using an early VLF/TR coin hunter, it was by “following the dry washers” and detecting old tailing piles that I soon packed a metal 35mm canister with small sub-grain to...

Gold & Fish in Washington

April 2001
On February 16, 2001, in Olympia, Washington, a very unusual thing happened—prospectors and officials of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) finally engaged in a true dialogue and discovered that they weren’t enemies after all!

Forest Service Attempts to Close Public Access

June 2007
The Forest Service is attempting to close off historic trails and roads throughout the western states, declaring the closures are part of a travel management project. They state their motivation is to control damage caused by off-highway-vehicles.

Sampling Placer Stockpiles

August 2013
Sampling other people's stockpiles or dumps has some inherent risks that sampling undisturbed ground does not have.

The Life of an Independent Prospector

July 2012
“JP, is it possible to make a living looking for gold with a metal detector?” I get asked this question a lot...

Looking Back

November 2002
Excerpts from California Mining Journal, our original title, published 50 years ago this month.

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