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Mohave Mountain Placers, Arizona
January 2000 by Edgar B. Heylmun, PhD
There are literally hundreds of dry placer deposits in the Sonoran and Mohave Deserts of western Arizona. Many of these placer gold deposits are not described in any published books, bulletins, or reports, though placer gold enthusiasts know where...
The Bawl Mill
• A true alarm clock
• No better time to roast a pig
• By the numbers…
Working the Belmont Mine Butte, Montana—1953
Waiting to go underground in the Belmont Mine in Butte, Montana, I hoped that I didn’t look like a green college kid. I enjoyed watching the ropes run through the sheaves at the top of the head frame as the shaft crew was busy changing over...
The Bawl Mill
• Flattening Syria like a pancake
• "Did I say that out loud?"
• Flower arrangers wilting in Louisiana
• Be careful what you wish for...
Looking Back
Excerpts from CMJ published 50 years ago this month.
Ask The Experts—Where Would The Most Gold Tend To Be In This Deposit?
Q: I live in SW Oregon, Gold Beach... I am getting small gold from this paleoplacer. Where would the most gold tend to be, in the sediment holding the pebbles together or in certain...rocks such as quartz breccia in the conglomerate?
Melman on Gold & Silver
Whatever else one will be able to say in later months about the year 2002, we can already state that there is no shortage of interesting and important news developments.
The Bawl Mill
• Congress hits an all-time low
• FEMA—Federal Emergency MISmanagement Again...
• But everyone else is doing it...
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• Over the Divide
• Our Readers Say
• Letter from the Editor to our Readers and Advertisers
• Administration Considers Bypassing Congress
• First Woman to Draw Mining Pension
• Small Mine Selective Blasting
• High Court to Reconsider Wilderness Water Rights
• Sixteen to One Takes on MSHA
• Picks & Pans: Gold Mining on Joie Osgood Ranch
• Gold
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• Millie's Tailings
• Placer PGMs in Alaska
• Mogollon—New Mexico's Remote Gold Camp
• ICMJ 9th Annual Photo Contest Results
• The Other Minerals of Mt. Diablo
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
• Looking Back
