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No Mining / Logging on 40 Million Acres
November 1999 by Kenneth Harn
Roadless areas in 35 states would be affected under the plan.Ask The Experts: Should I take my claim access problems to the Desert Advisory Council?
Q: The nearest access to the claim is a half mile walk, which is tough for a lode claim.
Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
Over the Divide
Charles L. Butler
1920 - 2014
Gold Mine Plans Upheld in Lawsuit
Officials for the largest gold producing company in the world claimed a significant legal victory over environmentalists who they accused of abusing the appeals process to thwart mining in Nevada.
National Mining Hall of Fall and Museum Calls for Poetry
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.
Ask The Experts: Small-scale drilling
Q: What is available to a small prospector? How does one prospect (drill) into the walls of an old hard rock mine to see what is 10 feet beyond...
The French Mines of El Boleo
Volumes have been written on the subject of mining in Mexico ever since the first Spanish conquistadors undertook to strip bare the newfound land in the 6th century. Gold and silver, which attracted Cortez and the Spanish Inquisition, was there for the taking, and the fabulously rich mines of Guanajuanto, San Miguel de Allende, Zacatecas, Real del Monte, San Luis Potosi, Durango and Taxco, among others, became famous throughout the New World and Europe.
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• Another Gold Heist Reported at Nome
• No Need to Rewrite Mining Regs, NAS Study Confirms
• BLM Filing Requirements for Small Miners' Waiver
• Asarco Accepts Phelps Dodge Buyout
• Once Lonely, Mojave Desert Phone Now World's Companion
• Judge Blocks Road Protest
• Company to Sue Over Stymied Gold Mine
• Catastrophism vs. Uniformitarianism
• 1st Annual Placer County Open Gold Panning Championships—1999
• Picks & Pans: The Ten-Pennyweight Nugget
• Mining in Sonora, Mexico
• Pullin' the Pin
• Land of Golden Dreams—California in the Gold Rush Decade
• Cerro Colorado Silver, Arizona
• Progressive Privy Program Proved Popular
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
• Surging Gold Prices Burn a Few Unlucky Mining Firms
• Looking Back