Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices

August 1999 by Staff

Looking Back

April 2004
Excerpts from California Mining Journal, our original title, published 50 years ago this month.

Reserves and Resources Explained

February 2014
Reservers and resources are very important to prospectors and miners, but they may be vague terms to some.

Letter to the Editor

December 2000
Follow the chain of letters between everyday prospectors Robert and Lesa Barton of Oregon and Deputy Regional Forester Linda Goodman.

Shaker Tables for Processing Hard Rock Ores

May 2017

Most placer equipment is really made with gold in the 30 and larger mesh sizes in mind, though if carefully used can often get reasonable recovery down to the 50 mesh size.

A Golden Dream Come True

November 2007
We found the area where this patch of gold nuggets was located by researching several books on old mining districts. By the end of the 2006 winter we had about five different locations that we wanted to investigate.

Search for the Legendary Sierra Azul

June 2001
One of the most unique mining stories to derive from the days of the Spanish conquest of the Southwest is the legendary story of the Sierra Azul, or “Blue Mountain” of Arizona. The first reports of what some historians maintain is nothing more than mere myth, came in the middle of the seventeenth century, and it survived as a frontier tradition into the nineteenth century.

Melman on Gold & Silver

February 2009
We noted last month that it was important to keep track of how the Obama team was shaping up and to attempt to gain at least a glimmer of insight into the anticipated direction of his economic policies. Well, we have indeed been able to obtain sufficient information to offer some projections.

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