"No Gold Sales" Says Nevada Senator

August 1999 by Associated Press

Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices

January 2016

California State Gold Panning Championship Results

November 2001
The seventh annual California State Championships started off with a roar and it never ended until the champions were named at the end of the two-day event. The setting was perfect. The event was being held in the historic mining town of Foresthill, northeast of Sacramento.

Picks & Pans: George Duffy Jr.—Pocket Miner Extraordinaire

September 2004
During the Miocene and Pliocene mid-Tertiary Epochs, the Great Basin, Mojave, and Sonoran deserts within parts of California, Nevada, and Arizona became the source—the genesis—of ubiquitous epithermal “precious metal” fissure-gold veins associated with extensive acidic volcanic lava flows that blanketed much of the Cordillera during this time.

Ask The Experts

June 2015
If it's gold, how should I clean it?

Gold, Quartz & Chalcedony—Part I

October 2011
Gold has always been noted to have an affinity for quartz to such a degree prospectors almost always dig on quartz veins in a search for the precious metal.

The Business of Mines—Consider Your Tax Deductions Now

May 2007
Uncle Sam, the not-so-silent partner of every miner, dredger and prospector is willing, using our tax laws, to help reduce out-of-pocket expenditures necessary to acquire business assets and property. In addition to the well-known depreciation deduction, however, the tax laws permit tax write-offs for other, less tangible business assets. The best time to explore and lock-in many of these overlooked and misunderstood deductions is now, well before the end of the tax year.

EPA Offers Liability Protection to Spur Cleanups

October 2005
Environmental groups that volunteer to help government and businesses clean up waste from mine drainage in the West won’t be held liable if there are future disputes over the pollution, the Environmental Protection Agency said.

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