Mining Stock Quotes, Mineral & Metal Prices

February 2009 by Staff

California Dredgers Shafted by Assembly Democrats

July 2010
Legislation designed to provide full permit refunds to all suction dredge miners in California has been hijacked in an Assembly policy committee.

An Unusual Death in Downieville's Gold Rush

May 2000
While women were extremely rare in the early California gold camps, their relative absence did not always guarantee their safety or protection if they happened to be of Mexican nationality. The most memorable, graphic example of this tendency took place in Downieville, seat of Sierra County located on a fork of the Yuba River.

Legislative and Regulatory Update

October 2002
• Financial Guarantees (Bonding)
• National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
• Diesel engine exhaust
• Senator Daschle inadvertently helps timber industry
• USFWS implementing Wildlands Project without voter approval

Our Readers Say

August 2000
• "I would like to be included..."
• "No claim in the world can be economically exploited without mechanical means."

The Value of Old Patches

June 2019

Nuggets make for the best memories and this patch was just adding to mine. In the hours of daylight I had left, I worked from that nugget to the bottom of the patch, collecting eight more nuggets.

Germany Developing Gold Vending Machine

July 2009
It’s a novel twist on the vending machine: in go the coins, out comes a nugget of gold.

Commercial Placer Mining With Jigs

August 2010
During the upward stroke, water is pushed up through the shot layer causing it to open up and lifting the gravel particles above. The heavier particles settle faster based on Stokes law, and move down into the shot bed layer, while the lighter...

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