Over the Divide

July 2014 by Staff

Ask the Experts

April 2014
Bismuth oxide for assaying?

Serpentine in California

May 2000
Serpentine, as used in this article, is both a rock and a mineral. The rock should be termed "serpentinite," but the word "serpentine" is in common usage for both the rock and mineral.

Ask The Experts

May 2016

• Any suggestions about gold panning in Oregon?

Looking Back

August 2005
Excerpts from California Mining Journal, our original title, published 50 years ago this month.

Dredging the Mokelumne

February 2008
Gold mining adventures can begin in the most unusual fashion. This one started when the high water receding in May of 1999 disclosed that a tragedy had occurred somewhere upstream of Slaughterhouse Gulch on the north fork of the...

The Bawl Mill

July 2000
• Pennsylvanians looking for a tax rebate get a sultry offer
• Teenage legislative employee alreadys knows how to spend taxpayer money

Sons of Gwalia & Herbert Hoover

July 2002
The Sons of Gwalia mine is situated in the Eastern Goldfields region of Western Australia. It was found by a group of Welsh prospectors in 1896. Gwalia simply means Wales; hence, it was Sons of Gwalia who found the mine.

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