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May 2006 by Staff
Kalgoorlie, Australia—Born of Gold
In June 1893, a wiry Irish prospector by the name of Paddy Hannon was prospecting the harsh, dry country east of Coolgardie in Western Australia. It was country that could suck the moisture from a man’s body in days...
The Bawl Mill
• Pouring money down an artsy drain...
• Big government gets even bigger
• California leads the way...to financial ruin
Pullin' the Pin
I first saw Pioche, Nevada while hitch-hiking into town in an old Ford with three good tires and one wheel hammered to an ugly steel disc on fifty miles of blacktop.
Resurrecting An Old Hard Rock Mine
There were nice sections of vein material at the end of several drifts, like they just stopped work one day and walked away.
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Forest Service to revisit 228 regulations
• WOTUS Executive Order suspended
Big Rock Gold
Fran, and I had made a practice of turning big boulders in gold producing areas to find some great rewards. Sometimes it was slow and frustrating, but in the end “We got the gold!”
Economic Analysis on Critical Habitat for Bull Trout
The US Fish & Wildlife Service has released the economic analysis and reopened the comment period for their proposal to designate critical habitat for the bull trout in 18,469 river miles and 532,721 acres of lake and reservoir habitat across the Western states.
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The Bawl Mill
• Basic Geology for the Independent Miner—Part V Geology of Hardrock Gold Deposits
• Orko Silver Corp.
• Miners Win Again in SREP vs. USFS
• The Willow Creek-Hatcher Pass Alaskan Goldfields
• Metal Detecting for Gold Within Andesite and Basaltic Volcanic Mining Districts
• How to Prospect for Silver Field Tests You Can Use to Detect the Hidden Metal
• Identifying the Noble Metals Simple Tests That Work
• Melman on Gold & Silver
