Nevada Gold Production Up Despite Lower Prices

May 2001 by Associated Press

Looking Back

January 2001
Excerpts from CMJ published 50 years ago this month.

High Court Reverses Nevada Mining Decision

January 2007
The Nevada Supreme Court ruling last April in a Newmont Mining Corp. gold mine case was erased by a high court panel.

BLM Wants to Withdraw South Pass Public Land

December 1999
The Bureau of Land Management is proposing to close off nearly 5,000 acres of public land on South Pass for the next two years while a plan is developed for designating portions of Sweetwater River as wild and scenic.

Aussie Gold—A Look at the Northern Territory

May 2002
The Northern Territory has about six hundred proven gold deposits and has produced nearly 12 million ounces with a further 15 million ounces to be recovered. While the early hard rock miners were eventually blocked by water flows...

Sampling, Hydro-Shocking & Cleaning Quartz-Gold Specimens

May 2017

Many specimens have a small amount of gold and are not pretty to look at. There is a nifty way to give them a makeover and make them much prettier than they were when you found them. 

Groups Wonder Meaning of Call for More Wilderness

July 1999
U.S. Forest Service Chief Michael Dombeck says there ought to be more wilderness—a comment that raised some concerns.

Picks & Pans: Dredging on the Arkansas

February 2001
I had been looking forward to this trip since last year when the annual trip had rewarded me with a ¾-pennyweight nugget.

Subscription Required:
The Bawl Mill   • Original Sixteen to One Goes to Court—Challenges MSHA Citations Part II   • The Golden Triangle of Sonora, Mexico   • Using Legal Subdivision   • Placer vs. Lode Gold   • Gold Tellurides: Tellurium, an Assay Impurity   • Court Hears Arguments Over Rights to Shipwreck   • Picks & Pans: How to Succeed in a Small Mine, A Case History: 1990-2000   • Charcoal Crucible Recipe   • Discovery of the Mountain Pass REO Deposit   • Romance of the Old Silver King   • Record-Breaking Alaskan Nugget for Sale   • Company Notes   • Gold in Guatemala   • Bush Taps Utah Resident for Labor Post   • Looking Back   • Melman on Gold & Silver   • Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices   • Honda Pares Down Use of Precious Metals in Autos

Free:
Legislative and Regulatory Update