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Placer Testing with Large Samples
June 2000 by Dr. Ralph E. Pray
Of all the difficult gold placer sites to evaluate, none can compare with trying to dig to bedrock through twenty or thirty feet of soaked overburden through which water is slowly seeping downgrade.
Critical Metals: Zinc
In this article, part of an ongoing series taking a look at critical metals in our economy, we will examine the mining and use of the metal zinc.
Legislative and Regulatory Update
Wyoming—A Land That Time (And Explorationists) Forgot
Wyoming is a vast state, covering nearly 260,000 km2 of surface area, which houses fewer people than most cities (less than 500,000 call Wyoming home). The state has no state income tax, is driven by taxes generated by the oil and gas...
Picks & Pans: Prospecting on Perry Creek
A couple of years ago Smokey Joe (Joe Parsons) and I partnered up on a placer claim on Perry Creek in southeastern British Columbia. This is one of the old gold creeks from the early days.
Small-Scale Hard Rock Production
So far this year we have recovered over three pounds of gold and the hard rock veins seem to go on forever. We now have three claims that can produce good enough gold to set up a productive operation.
Tips for Cleaning Gold Nuggets
I pulled out the nuggets I had worked on previously and looked at the size of the wire basket that the items to be cleaned are placed into. It looks much like a miniature french fry deep fryer.
Melman on Gold & Silver
I believe this is a powder-keg waiting to explode down the road—with potentially devastating effects on society—but positive implications for gold and silver.
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• Ruling Awards Giant Nugget to Finder
• Letter to the Editor
• Traditional Adversaries Reach Agreement
• The Gold Belts of Georgia
• Company Notes
• Gondwana Gold Gravels
• Quick Thinking & Rescue Devices Save Two Lives
• Picks & Pans: The Discovery Gulch Diggings
• Prospector Finds Cache of Emeralds in North Carolina
• My Old Carbide Lamp
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Hands & Pans on the South Yuba River
• Permafrost Tunnel Shows Cross-sections of Past
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