Over the Divide

January 2014 by Scott Harn

Melman on Gold & Silver

June 2010
...we cannot help but wonder exactly how nation after nation, already massively in debt and presently burdened with monumental operating deficits, is going to come up with such largesse. We also wonder exactly how going ever-more deeply into debt is going to resolve a debt crisis.

Picks & Pans: Auburn Ravine Gold

January 2005
The high early spring runoff was in full force this late February 2004 day, lapping midway up the floodwall. As my good friend, and mining partner, Eric Johnson and I stood there watching the stream rush by behind his cabin, we wondered aloud what...

Repair / Replace Tax Rule Changes

June 2012
In an effort to resolve the controversy over whether certain expenditures made by a mining operation or mining-related business are currently deductible as repair expenses...the Internal Revenue Service has finally released new regulations.

Greens Force Strategic Mine Out of Business

March 2002
Communist China Now Controls Supply of Rare Minerals

Ask The Experts - What are these thin brittle sheets with reddish powder?

August 2018

Finding Gold With Copper and Turquoise

August 2009
The signs of copper, which the prospector most commonly sees in the field in outcrops and on the surface, are secondary minerals caused by the action of air and water on the original copper-bearing sulfides that were deposited deep...

Looking Back

January 2007
Excerpts from California Mining Journal, our original title, published 50 years ago this month.

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