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Picks & Pans: Leon Always Finds the Most Gold

Since 1986, I have spent the summer months camped out on a river, looking for gold. The summer of 2000 was no exception.

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Melman on Gold & Silver


For gold advocates, the theme this past month could have been Life should be beautiful!  After all, just consider some of the events of the past month.

The Birimian Greenstone Belts of West Africa


The country we were to visit was Burkina Faso, a small country about the same size of my home state of Nevada with about 10 times more people. The second day I was in Africa, we went out to the goldfields for the first time.

Philippines Asks Foreigners to Invest in Mining


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.

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Attention to Detail - Part II


Ditches almost always started in the high country and contoured the mountainsides, making a long drop, usually many miles away, to the goldfields. There are ditches in Trinity County that originate at seven and eight thousand feet in the Trinity Alps that carried water almost thirty miles.

Picks & Pans: Koyukuk River Gold—Prospecting Alaska's Brooks Range


The water rose up in a great splash around the front of the pickup. The tires smashed into a couple of large boulders and suddenly the truck nosed down into a deep hole and bounced back out as I stepped on the gas pedal.

Picks & Pans: Gold Recovery in Placer Mining Operations


Two of the major factors affecting the profitability of a placer mining enterprise are the relative efficiency of the mining equipment, and the rate and percentage of recovery obtained while conducting mining operations.

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