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Picks & Pans: Red Mountain Planted Nugget Hunt
April 2001 by Robert Abendschein
While there are many ways to conduct a planted nugget hunt, this article describes one way that several mining associations can get together and sponsor such an event. In this hunt, the Antelope Valley Treasure Hunter Society’s claim in the Randsburg Mining District was used as the huntfield. It was chosen because...Additional articles that might interest you...
Rediscovering Placerville, California Part II
March 2011
To get to the gold, the miners had to remove the shale pieces and stack them on the sides while sluicing the remaining material through their boxes.
To get to the gold, the miners had to remove the shale pieces and stack them on the sides while sluicing the remaining material through their boxes.
Mystery of the Reed Gold Mine Nuggets
July 2000
The discovery of gold in Little Meadow Creek in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, by young Conrad Reed, on a Sunday morning in the Summer of 1799, ushered in the search for gold in the continental United States.
The discovery of gold in Little Meadow Creek in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, by young Conrad Reed, on a Sunday morning in the Summer of 1799, ushered in the search for gold in the continental United States.
Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
October 2016
Looking Back
June 2004
Excerpts from California Mining Journal, our original title, published 50 years ago this month.
Excerpts from California Mining Journal, our original title, published 50 years ago this month.
The Hill of Gold
February 2018
I was amazed and surprised, and I took a moment to admire how beautiful this coarse chunk of gold was. It later weighed exactly one-half ounce.
The Bawl Mill
March 2009
• Regulations add fuel to the fire...
• We'd like to give the Postal Service our two cents!
• By the numbers...
• Regulations add fuel to the fire...
• We'd like to give the Postal Service our two cents!
• By the numbers...
Legislative and Regulatory Update
January 2008
• Forest Service proposes further changes to mining regs
• Preble’s mouse resurrected
• Forest Service proposes further changes to mining regs
• Preble’s mouse resurrected
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