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December 1999 by Staff
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Picks & Pans: Big River Dredging in Northern California
Back in the early 1990s, a gold mining club in northern California (on the Klamath River near Happy Camp), was offering a free "Trial Week" to test their claims. I decided to take them up on their offer. After obtaining a California Dredge Permit, I loaded my trusty Jeep with my camping gear...
Melman on Gold & Silver
Quite suddenly, another major financial issue with significant implications for the world of precious metals has been gaining growing attention. We are referring to concern about looming “currency wars,” and we also discuss that topic...
"Gold Rush: Alaska" in the Porcupine Mining District

Mining Stock Quotes, Mineral & Metal Prices
Legislative and Regulatory Update
- Property rights advocate in running for top BLM spot
- “Draining the swamp” at Interior
The Bawl Mill
• Top 10 ways to get past airport security
• Scientific certainty flashback
• Open means closed
• Gore’s Inconvenient Truth
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The Bawl Mill
• Over the Divide
• Desert Phone Trashed
• ICMJ Elected Prospecting Magazine of 1999
• Advertising Manager Leaving ICMJ
• Guest Editorial—California "Special" Dredge Permits in Jeopardy
• The Search Continues
• Guest Editorial: U.S. Government—Like Nobody's Business
• Circulation and Collections Manager Leaving ICMJ
• Company Notes
• House Chair Requests Records on Forest Decision
• BLM Wants to Withdraw South Pass Public Land
• Silverton Preserving Lofty Symbol of Mining Era
• Hijackers Make Off With 660 Pounds of Gold
• Prospecting With a Magnetometer
• 1999 Tables of Content
• Lighting the Way Underground 1860-1940s
• Millie's Tailings
• Picks & Pans: Crevicing & Sniping for Placer Gold
• Looking Back
• Gold in Sonora
• Forest Service Boss Quits in Bull Trout Flap
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• European Gold Miners Seek Clarification Letter
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
• Squeezing Diamond Into Graphite
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