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National Mining Hall of Fall and Museum Calls for Poetry
March 2003 by Staff
The National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum in Leadville, Colorado, is calling for poems reflective of the mining experience for its Fifth Annual Miner’s Poetry Jamboree.Epithermal Gold and Silver Deposits
Epithermal deposits form in the ground at shallow depths. They are popular with prospectors because can yield very rich deposits and they are widespread in the Western US.
2006 US Gold Panning Championships
This year’s US Gold Panning Championships were held in Gold Bug Park, in Placerville, California. The competition site was set in the park’s pavilion among the trees and adjacent to the stream that runs through the park.
Placer Gold in the Black Hills, South Dakota
During the Indian Wars in 1874, General George Custer and his men camped on French Creek in the southern Black Hills, near the present site of Custer, South Dakota. Two of his men found placer gold in French Creek. Word got out, and before long, a party of prospectors arrived. However, the government had signed a treaty with the Sioux Indians to stay out of the Black Hills. This led to prospectors sneaking in and working creeks all over the region at their own risk.
Company Notes
• Coeur Alaska
• Canico Resources
• Entree Gold
• Newmont Mining
• Bema Gold
• Copper Ridge Explorations
Diamond Exploration and Mining Heating Up in North America
Diamond exploration in Canada has led to a major new industry that did not exist prior to six years ago. Yet today, Canada ranks as one of the world’s leading producers of gem-quality diamonds.
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• I-147 will be on the ballot
• Consolidation granted
• More rivers off-limits to mining
• Valley fills decision appealed
• Forest Service cites dredgers
• Time extended for roadless comments
• Newmont water permit voided
Melman on Gold & Silver
To say that the international environmental community took exception to President Trump’s decision to remove America from the 2016 Paris Accord would be an understatement of enormous proportions.
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The Bawl Mill
• The Steeple Rock District, New Mexico
• The Hunt for Diamonds, Nunavut, Canada
• Famous Yuba River Dredge Sinks
• Gold in Maine?
• Mud Creek Placer Mine Adventure
• Junior Miners and Investors Gather in Canada
• Picks & Pans: Dredging at Douglas Creek, Wyoming
• Gold in Gossan
• Company Notes
• Gold Prospecting on the East Fork River, Alaska (Part III—Conclusion)
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Looking Back
