Over The Divide: Jim Straight, 1930-2019

June 2019 by Staff

Ask The Experts

March 2015
Q: Conflicting advice on motorized small-scale mining equipment

Legislative Update

October 1999
Robert Sanregret—Attorney at Law
Western Mining Council
National Association of Mining Districts

Melman on Gold & Silver

August 2014
While most precious metals observers tend to pay more attention to action in the gold market as opposed to silver, there are times when the white metal can give us particularly sharp price targets going forward.

Legislative and Regulatory Update

October 2010
• TMDLs in northern California
• Don't mess with Texas
• EPA and bonding
• Resources Coalition has input on proposed Washington State fees

The Treasure Detective—Part III

September 2006
In the 1800s, rich silver and gold mines along the eastern Sierras were supplied from Los Angeles by a wagon road with an important stage stop at Freeman Junction. Wagons carrying the gold and silver back from the mines to Los Angeles followed the same wagon road. A cottage industry of robbery arose where numerous individuals made a living holding up these wagons and making off into the hills with the loot.

The Lucky Shot Mine

February 2005
I hobbled around on the broken up, sorted rock pile. Watching where I stepped, I kept my eye open for quartz with a gray-blue color imbedded throughout the samples I picked up.

Beach Mining for Gold

March 2010
Commonly these layers contain small particles of gold and platinum, and in places where they are sufficiently concentrated, the metallic particles are abundant enough to be extracted profitably.

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