Over the Divide

August 2003 by Staff

Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices

July 2007

Eight Reasons To Release Oil From The Strategic Petroleum Reserve

August 2008
President George W. Bush lifted the executive moratorium on oil drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), which was first established by his father, President George H.W. Bush, in 1990. The current president has argued that the United States should be “drilling for more oil here in America to take the pressure off of gasoline prices.”

Picks & Pans: "Eye-Balling" for Alaskan Gold

May 1999
The gold miner held out his hand and showed me a sixteen-ounce gold nugget, slightly coarse in texture, and resembling a biscuit. I shook my head in amazement as he pointed out the exact location of his lucky find.

Aussie Gold—A Look at the Northern Territory

May 2002
The Northern Territory has about six hundred proven gold deposits and has produced nearly 12 million ounces with a further 15 million ounces to be recovered. While the early hard rock miners were eventually blocked by water flows...

A Return to Silver City, Idaho

July 2014
...we were able to pull out close to another 3+ ounces of small, angular Silver City gold. This also included several more small nuggets, pieces of wire gold and some quartz-gold pieces—not bad for 4 days with a small sluice.

Proposed Regulations for California Suction Dredging

April 2011
One of the most asinine proposals in the SEIR is to require miners to state when and where they will be dredging. This information would be accessible to the public, which would make them prime candidates for getting their homes burglarized while they are out mining.

Legislative and Regulatory Update

January 2008
• Forest Service proposes further changes to mining regs
• Preble’s mouse resurrected

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