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Prospecting Adventures—Pure Gold
I often wonder if I would have felt the same about gold prospecting if my father had introduced me to it at a young age. Would I have the same passion and fascination that I do now? How much further along the learning curve would I be if...
Ask The Experts
• How do I separate silver from lead ore?
The Bawl Mill
• Protesters trash the place
• IRS can't keep a secret
• Make way for minimum wage
Legislative and Regulatory Update
- EPA ends "sue and settle"
- Sage grouse mineral withdrawal cancelled
Writing It All Off After The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
While many prospecting or mining operations don’t have sufficient profits to benefit from accelerated write-offs or even the full 100% “bonus” depreciation write-off, other options can be equally rewarding.
What Have You Got to Lose?
It’s accepted knowledge that wet methods will recover more fine gold than dry methods and processing the gravel as a whole will get more gold than only using a metal detector. The question is how much more?
Yukon Placer Miners Fighting Extreme Discharge Limits
Hold up a glass of tap water and take a look at it. It’s about as clear as the new Yukon water regulations require the water returning to rivers to be after being used by placer miners. The new limit of 25 parts per million (ppm) sediment does not leave a lot of maneuvering room in terms of discharge.
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The Bawl Mill
• Siskiyou National Forest Update
• Company Looks at Restarting Sunshine Mine
• Piedmont Gold
• Gold & The Dollar
• Picks & Pans: Exploring Wyoming's High Desert
• Sons of Gwalia & Herbert Hoover
• Looking Back
• Prospecting on the Yukon River
• Placer Gold in Arizona
• The Fire Assay of Fly Eyes
• Bill Could Create New Silver Market
• 2002 Inductees to the National Mining Hall of Fame
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Mystery of Olmec Jade Solved
