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July 2004 by Staff
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The Bawl Mill
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Special Suction Dredge Permits in Jeopardy
As we go to press, Horseshoe Bar Action & Research, a division of the Gold Country Miners small-scale mining club, brought to ICMJ's attention a potentially very significant problem for gold dredgers in California.
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Clean Water Act rule change proposed
• DOJ files motion against Oregon miners
• Off-road access case to be reviewed by Supreme Court
• Resources Coalition hard at work
• Leavitt takes helm of EPA
When Gold Moves, Placers Form
What it takes to move gold is turbulent, fast-moving water. Normally the water is heavy with clay and all sorts of sentiments that have been ripped up from the bed of the river or carried down from the tributaries above.
Iron Minerals, Your Detector and Gold
It’s worthwhile for the prospector using a metal detector to know a little bit more about the association of iron and gold as well as how iron minerals affect your metal detector.
Gold Too Big to Carry
There is a unique anticipation that comes with waking in gold country. The long early morning rays bring warmth after a cold night. Restless nights allow thoughts of gold hidden in the ground for too long.
More on Detecting Pocket Gold
What I hope to do here is to give you some information that will help you, the reader, pick out locations that will be better for you to detect and give you a possibility of finding gold.
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The Bawl Mill
• Mining Claim Fees Are Going Up
• Buell Park Pipe, Arizona
• Mines and Money
• Understanding Hard Rock Mining: Terms and Methods—Part II
• Two Nevada Mines Look to Supply Own Power
• Paleontonlogical Resources Preservation Act
• Picks & Pans: Mexican "Edventure"
• Over the Divide
• Flat-Fault Gold in Sonora, Mexico
• Looking Back
• The Fern Mine
• Map Offers Look at Butte's Mining History
• Gold in China
• 2004 National Mining Hall of Fame Inductees
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
