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Picks & Pans: George Duffy Jr.—Pocket Miner Extraordinaire
September 2004 by Jim Straight
During the Miocene and Pliocene mid-Tertiary Epochs, the Great Basin, Mojave, and Sonoran deserts within parts of California, Nevada, and Arizona became the source—the genesis—of ubiquitous epithermal “precious metal” fissure-gold veins associated with extensive acidic volcanic lava flows that blanketed much of the Cordillera during this time.Additional articles that might interest you...
Bucket Line Dredges
September 2009
For many years, mechanical mining in waterways was seen as an impossibility by miners, especially in the Western US. The few dredges that had been tried at various locations were generally built on designs similar to those that had been used in harbor excavation work, but it was found that they were...
For many years, mechanical mining in waterways was seen as an impossibility by miners, especially in the Western US. The few dredges that had been tried at various locations were generally built on designs similar to those that had been used in harbor excavation work, but it was found that they were...
Ask The Experts
August 2015
Hydraulic remnants or just lose material?
Hydraulic remnants or just lose material?
Melman on Gold & Silver
May 2000
If there is one word which seems to describe the past month on so many fronts, it is the word "dysfunctional." The tone was set when "American Beauty" won the Academy Award for "Best Movie."
If there is one word which seems to describe the past month on so many fronts, it is the word "dysfunctional." The tone was set when "American Beauty" won the Academy Award for "Best Movie."
Ask the Experts
August 2013
Q: Will my detector react to fine gold?
Q: Will my detector react to fine gold?
Couple Creates Jewelry of the Iron Range
May 2005
Bryan and Teresa Sandnas’ idea of turning taconite into high-quality jewelry seemed as brilliant as ... well, a lump of iron ore. But what seemed like an implausible plan has turned a crude Iron Range resource into small pieces of beauty.
Bryan and Teresa Sandnas’ idea of turning taconite into high-quality jewelry seemed as brilliant as ... well, a lump of iron ore. But what seemed like an implausible plan has turned a crude Iron Range resource into small pieces of beauty.
Shortage of Mining Engineers Projected
February 2005
As decade-high gold and silver prices spark a renewed interest in mining in the West, there are few mining education programs and fewer students earning mining engineering degrees due to two decades of decline in the US mining industry.
As decade-high gold and silver prices spark a renewed interest in mining in the West, there are few mining education programs and fewer students earning mining engineering degrees due to two decades of decline in the US mining industry.
Melman on Gold & Silver
July 2006
Several years ago one of the most important persons on the American political scene was Ross Perot, an independent candidate for President. His favorite campaign theme was railing against (NAFTA) and his claim was that...
Several years ago one of the most important persons on the American political scene was Ross Perot, an independent candidate for President. His favorite campaign theme was railing against (NAFTA) and his claim was that...
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• The Bawl Mill
• Kerry Proposes Large Fees on Miners
• Is a Gold Rush Coming to the Iron Range?
• The Klamath Oldland
• Baker City is Defined by Gold Rush
• Coeur Alaska Hopes to Begin Work on Gold Mine This Fall
• Crater of Diamonds, Arkansas
• Company Plans to Develop Cabinet Mountains Mine
• I-147 Before Montana Supreme Court
• Diamond Exploration and Mining Heating Up in North America
• Gold in Serbia
• Looking Back
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
