Panel Cuts Park Monies, Eases Mining Restrictions

August 1999 by Associated Press

Yukon Placer Miners Fighting Extreme Discharge Limits

May 2003
Hold up a glass of tap water and take a look at it. It’s about as clear as the new Yukon water regulations require the water returning to rivers to be after being used by placer miners. The new limit of 25 parts per million (ppm) sediment does not leave a lot of maneuvering room in terms of discharge.

The Hunt for Diamonds, Nunavut, Canada

March 2003
During the summer of 2001, Hunter Exploration Group conducted a regional mineral exploration program on the Melville Peninsula in Nunavut, in search of predominantly gold, platinum and copper.

Carbonatites

February 2005
Carbonatites are rocks that formed from molten calcite or dolomite. The thought of calcite being molten lava is difficult to accept, but it was confirmed when it poured out of a vent in Tanzania in 1960.

The Elusive Mother Lode

May 2004
With history so often repeating itself, you can’t go wrong searching for gold using modern exploration techniques and exploration theories in regions of historic gold activity.

Glaciers and Placer Gold Deposits

June 2010
Here we examine where and why placers are found in glaciated landscapes from the Ice Ages.

Time Well Spent

January 2012
Time is a commodity which if traded would dwarf the price of gold. Nobody has enough of it; we can’t make more of it; and whether squandered or spent wisely, once gone, it’s gone forever. To find gold we have to spend time.

Oregon Miner Challenges Forest Service’s Authority to Regulate Mining

October 2009
Judging by news accounts, Tracy was doing exactly what H.R. 365, commonly referred to as the Mining Act of 1866, allows him to do.

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