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February 2001 by Staff

Detecting Clay Seams

November 2015
Because the old timers were so good at locating the better paying deposits—most of them along clay seams in this particular area—it makes good sense to try and locate these clay lines at old mining sites.

Alaska Gold: Lisianski Inlet's First Bonanza

January 2019

In 1967, a local resident showed me a pouch of small gold nuggets and flakes. Several years later I asked the same person where that gold was found. He responded, “From the streambed below the old stamp mill at Apex.”

Reinventing the Wheel—The Infinity-Jet

June 2004
To all the miners who read the article, “New Life for the Suction Dredge,” printed in the December 2003 issue of ICMJ, I have an amusing update for you. I periodically go through my old back issues and I found the December 1981 issue very interesting.

PLP Members Win Occupancy Case—Appeals Continue

July 2003
Public Lands for the People (PLP) members Ron Lex and his mining partner Ken Waggener of Etna, California, were cited for occupying their mining claim in Klamath National Forest for more than 14 days. The section cited was Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 261.10(b). This CFR states that a special use authorization must be obtained for occupying a claim on National Forest land for more than 14 days. In some forests the time is 30 days.

Picks & Pans—The Green Rock, Rattlesnakes, Good Gold and Ruth's Mine

November 2000
After a long winter, gold flakes swirling around in black sand at the bottom of my pan was a welcome sight.

Cripple Creek, Colorado

April 2003
The historic mining town of Cripple Creek (population 600) is 43 miles, by paved highway, west of Colorado Springs, almost two miles high in the Colorado Rockies.

Melman on Gold & Silver

August 2016
It is hard to imagine any month during the thirty years I have been writing this column which had more bombshell headlines than the past thirty days.

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