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November 2001 by Staff
“Why is so much public land closed off to the recreational miner?”Additional articles that might interest you...
Gold at Mercury Mines
May 1999
There are numerous old mercury (quicksilver) mines in the central Coast Ranges of California, from San Benito County on the south to Lake County on the north, a distance of 225 miles.
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Ask the Experts
November 2012
Questions regarding processing black sands
Questions regarding processing black sands
Picks & Pans: Red Beryl Mining—Beaver County, Utah
May 2003
The Ruby Violet Mine is a rare red beryl locality that produces the only gem quality material of this type in the world. The mine is located in a topaz rhyolite within a rhyolite flow in the Wah Wah Mountains in Beaver, County, Utah.

The Ups and Downs of Geologic Faults
May 2011
Faults are fractures, breaks and broken zones in the Earth’s crust where one side of the break has moved relative to the other, and they come in many different varieties.

Significant Progress for California Suction Gold Dredgers
January 2015
It was a milestone day in the battle to maintain the rights of miners to dredge on federal mining claims in California.
It was a milestone day in the battle to maintain the rights of miners to dredge on federal mining claims in California.
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