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No Need to Rewrite Mining Regs, NAS Study Confirms

The findings substantiate what the Northwest Mining Association (NWMA) has been saying since Department of Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt first began an ill-conceived rule making over three years ago.

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Legislative and Regulatory Update


• Idaho maintains control
• Enough wilderness already
• Restraining the EPA
• Republicans on the attack
• DOI requests hard rock royalty
• New Forest Service plans
• Bill supporting small miners
• New mercury emission regs
• Latest info on California suction dredging

Sage-Grouse Listing Denied


The federal government decided not to add the greater sage-grouse to the list of endangered species. A listing would certainly have resulted in countless new restrictions across the Western states.

Legislative and Regulatory Update


• "No surprises" ruled restored
• Supreme Court to address submerged lands in Alaska
• Governors say reform the ESA
• Miners need to stay involved in each state

Ask The Experts


Sulfides and oxides—what's the difference between the two?

The Makorakoza of Zimbabwe—Centuries of Prospecting in Gold-Hosting Dolerites


Until a countrywide banning order in 2007, the undercover panners were living testimony to the presence of gold in a region not previously known for its occurrence.

Corner Country Gold


In 1845, the intrepid Australian explorer Captain Charles Sturt set out from Adelaide, the capital of the Colony of South Australia, to search for a supposed inland sea in the center of the continent. Travelling northeast through South Australia into the northwest corner of the Colony of New South Wales, he and his party of 15 men found themselves in the midst of a fierce drought.

A Warning About Mercury


I was working on an article to submit to you and had been for a couple of months. It won’t be the first. I had something occur that made me put off the article—safety! My article was concerning mineral processing at home.

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The Bawl Mill   • USPS Delays ICMJ Delivery at Oakland, CA Processing Center   • Another Gold Heist Reported at Nome   • 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   • No Mining / Logging on 40 Million Acres   • 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

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