Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices

December 2005 by Staff

Take it to Bedrock

November 2017

Picking the right spot to placer has to do with years of experience, and a little luck. The textbooks can tell you where it should be, but sometimes the rules just don’t seem to apply.

A Good Start

July 2011
We split up in order to cover a larger area and found good color almost everywhere. The bedrock was shallow on both sides of the river, but the inside bend was where we concentrated our prospecting.

Explorers to Salvage Gold-Laden Ship

November 2002
A salvage company struck a 20-year deal with Britain to search for riches in the sunken warship HMS Sussex, which went down in 1694, laden with gold and silver.

Newmont Fined for Fatality

August 2009
The agency said managers “showed a disregard for the miners’ welfare” and acted with “more than ordinary negligence” before the victim fell through a sinkhole while operating a large loader about 200 feet below the entrance of the mine.

Legislative and Regulatory Update

May 2007
• Endangered Species Act update
• California Fish & Game tries yet another route to stop gold dredgers

"Gold Rush: Alaska" in the Porcupine Mining District

June 2011
Honestly, I don’t believe it is likely there would be a glory hole where they described one at the bottom of the waterfall because plunging water with enough energy to scour out a large hole in bedrock would have the scouring ability to grind up and...

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