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Picks & Pans: Working the Crevices
October 2004 by Ron Wendt
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.
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Probably the best friend known to the Alaskan nugget shooter is the bulldozer. The bulldozer can open up a lot of opportunity for the metal detecting prospector. Along creeks and valleys where bulldozers have torn up overburden and exposed the...
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Legislative and Regulatory Update
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• Comments needed
• California tries another route to restrict miners and dredgers
• Comments needed
• California tries another route to restrict miners and dredgers
Legislative and Regulatory Update
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• More National Monument news
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• Battle continues in the "Golden State"
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If there is misleading wording anywhere, it will be in the sample data and in reserve/resource estimates.
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From Vietnam to Wedding Bands
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It’s a common symptom of gold fever for miners to be very hesitant to let go of gold they’ve found or even have it made into jewelry. I confess, I suffer from the same incurable disease!
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