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Hijackers Make Off With 660 Pounds of Gold
Ten heavily armed men hijacked a plane November 5th, making off with 660 lbs of gold worth an estimated $2.3 million...
Gold Indicators—What to Look for in the Goldfields
Some of the items that I’m going to go over are outcroppings, ditches, exploratory trenches and contacts/surface materials. I am going to speak about each of the above items in as much detail as I can, and then towards the end of this article I will tie them together.
Special Editorial: Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Believes They Have the Evidence

Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Changes to influential House committees
• Supreme Court may review ESA
• Suit filed to block Kensington
• Exploration incentive proposed in Wyoming
• Montana bill LC1058
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The Bawl Mill
• Editorial—BLM 43 CFR 3809 Revision Status
• Miner Says Mining Could Return to Boulder
• Arizona Mines and Minerals Releases New Directory
• Onerous New Mining Rules Adopted in Washington State
• U.S. Sued for Failure to Guard Rare Species
• Miner Charged in Death of Downieville Miner
• Senator Warns Against Proposal to Sell Some IMF Gold
• Dry Placers in the Kamma Mountains, Nevada
• Company Notes
• MCS Index Shows Decrease in Mining Costs
• Over the Divide
• Picks & Pans: Confessions of a Small Miner—Part II
• The Saga of Sand Mountain
• Nevada County Feeling Pain of Slumping Mining Industry
• There's Gold in Those Tailings
• Gold at Ragged Top, Arizona
• Increase in Silver Demand by Photography Industry
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Looking Back
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
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