Over The Divide—Chuck Cox, 1943-2009

March 2009 by Staff

Mining Districts in Montana Get Organized

January 2017
Those miners present immediately recognized the benefits of becoming members of MMAC and joined up on the spot. I spent some time answering a few questions, and then the miners took over.

Using Rock Formations to Your Advantage

June 2005
Over the past twenty or more years, the traditional “seat of the pants” science of using mineral identification tables as a means to identify common ore minerals, their associated rock-forming minerals and rocks, has slowly become a lost art.

USFS Criticized for Renting Chopper in Nevada Dispute

November 2003
The Forest Service is being criticized for spending $15,000 to rent a helicopter to empty sewage from a remote outhouse in northeast Nevada, work a citizens group had volunteered to do for free by using a closed forest road that the group wants reopened.

Pursuing Rare Earths in Wyoming

June 2012
The company that wants to build and operate the mine, Rare Element Resources Ltd., promises high-wage jobs and economic vitality to an area where 40 percent of the population is age 50 or older.

Legislative and Regulatory Update

March 2016
• "Recreational" mining bills in Washington State
• Three more national monuments

ICMJ's 12th Annual Photo Contest Results

January 2003

MMAC Update

October 2017

If you are a claimholder and your Mining District is in disarray, it’s time to join MMAC and get on board so your district can benefit from these changes as they are implemented.

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