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Montana Lawmakers Want Economic Review of New Mining Rule
November 2005 by Associated Press
A group of lawmakers is asking the state to review the economic effects of a new mining law that one lawmaker contends is nothing more than a thinly veiled effort to end all mining in Montana.Additional articles that might interest you...
Tips for Detecting Nugget Patches
April 2015

Certainly many other successful nugget hunters have mentioned these methods; hopefully I can add to or clarify these methods.
Looking Back
December 2003
Excerpts from California Mining Journal, our original title, published 50 years ago this month.
Excerpts from California Mining Journal, our original title, published 50 years ago this month.
Greenstone and Gold
September 2013
Contacts, faults and zones of weak rock are all places that can act as a pipeline to convey gold-bearing fluids, leading to valuable deposits.

Tons of Gold Buried Under World Trade Center
October 2001
Some 11.8 metric tons of gold worth an estimated $110 million, and 30.2 million ounces of silver valued at $121 million, are buried in the rubble below one of the collapsed buildings in the World Trade Center, The New York Times report
Some 11.8 metric tons of gold worth an estimated $110 million, and 30.2 million ounces of silver valued at $121 million, are buried in the rubble below one of the collapsed buildings in the World Trade Center, The New York Times report
The Significance of Boulders in Placer Deposits
February 2010
The good news about boulders is they can trap heavy minerals. The bad news is moving them out of the way can be a real struggle.

Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
October 2012
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