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Philippines Asks Foreigners to Invest in Mining
March 2005 by Associated Press
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and other officials urged international businesses to invest in the country’s mining industry after the Supreme Court cleared the way for foreigners to fully control mining operations in the country.Ask the Experts—How did the bill to address RS 2477 pan out?
Q: In the November 2006 issue, you published an article “Bill to address RS 2477” regarding rights-of-way across public lands (HR 6298, introduced by Representative Steven Pearce of New Mexico). Will you please provide me with some information about how this panned out?
Melman on Gold & Silver
As the wags have been putting it recently, it looks like the United States is caught between “Iraq and a hard place.” Every day for the past month we have read headlines about the likelihood of immediate war, and, based on those headlines, gold, petroleum and the financial markets have gone off on their tangents.
Picks & Pans: Working the Crevices
The crowbar can be a valuable mining tool. Crowbars come in all shapes and sizes. For moving large boulders and large chunks of bedrock, the longer 3½ footers work well. Then if you really get in trouble, there’s the long pry bar.
Melman on Gold & Silver
If there was ever a month for the financial markets to rejoice, the one just past would appear to have been ideal. Oil prices declined sharply...the Fed revved up the economy by smashing short-term interest rates to their lowest levels since World War II...and, perhaps most important of all, the Republican Party now has possession of a clean sweep of American political power, controlling the Presidency, Senate and House while Conservatives dominate the Supreme Court.
The Bawl Mill
• Where do I apply?
• Seriously, where do I apply?
• FEMA: “I only have “ice” for you...”
• Put your carbon emissions where your mouth is!
Bawl Mill
• Lukewarm consensus among scientists regarding global warming
• Yet another example of why big government is NOT the answer...
• Everyone deserves a second chance...
U.S. Sued for Failure to Guard Rare Species
Environmental groups have sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over its refusal to designate critical habitat for seven rare species, five in California and two in Alaska.
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The Bawl Mill
• $100 Million Lost on Faulty ESA Listing
• Geologists Locate Giant Gemstones
• Miner Wins Important Victory Against Forest Service
• The Art of Finding Coarse Gold Part IV—Recovery of Coarse Gold From Alluvial Placers
• Healthy Interest at Recent Vancouver Conferences
• Idaho Silver Miners Come to Aid of Tsunami Victims
• Picks & Pans: In Search of a Vein: Looking for Hardrock in the Talkeetna Mountains
• Researchers Trace History of Hope Diamond
• The "Rip-Roaring" Flood That Washed Out Mazuma, Nevada
• Looking Back
• Resolution Copper Mine, Arizona
• Company Notes
• China Ups Investment in Foreign Minerals
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
