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August 2007 by Staff
The Investigation
Six sticks of dynamite had been found in the glove compartment of an abandoned car back in 1972. This started an investigation by every level of law enforcement, including the federal government, in the Silver City, New Mexico area.
The World of the Simple Gold Pan
There are so many, many different types of gold pans on the market that I thought it would be worthwhile to take a look at the world of the simple gold pan.
Molycorp Minerals Reopens Mountain Pass Mine
During the great uranium rush of the late 1940s, thousands of prospectors spread out all over the western United States sampling rock outcrops for traces of radioactivity.
How to Interpret Assay Values
This assay system of ounces per ton sounds simple enough, but the use of the metric system and the additional measuring terms of “grams per ton” and “parts per million” (ppm) has created some misunderstanding of ore value.
From Spanish Mine to Modern-Day Exploration: The Historic Gold-Silver Camp of Palmarejo
Palmarejo Silver & Gold Corp., based in Longueuil, Quebec, is a gold-silver exploration company reexploring a former Spanish silver district in far southwestern Chihuahua.
Recovering Fine Gold with Oleophilic Adhesion
Oleophilic means "affinity to or attracted to oils," and this includes gold an diamonds.
Looking Back
Excerpts from California Mining Journal, our original title, published 50 years ago this month.
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The Bawl Mill
• Ask the Experts
• The Basics of Small-Scale Heap Leaching with Cyanide
• Will California Dredging Survive?
• Prospecting For Gold—The Osborne/Herman Hardrock Mine
• Journeys in the Kingman Quadrangle
• From Spanish Mine to Modern-Day Exploration: The Historic Gold-Silver Camp of Palmarejo
• Spanish Police Seize Ship in Treasure Fight
• Looking Back
• Gold Mine Proposed in Jefferson County
• Melman on Gold & Silver
