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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.
Eight Reasons To Release Oil From The Strategic Petroleum Reserve
President George W. Bush lifted the executive moratorium on oil drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), which was first established by his father, President George H.W. Bush, in 1990. The current president has argued that the United States should be “drilling for more oil here in America to take the pressure off of gasoline prices.”
The Ball Mill
• This wasn't the UN makeover we were expecting
• Do you have more money than you really need?
• British tabloids "French roast" Chirac
• Reporter comes out of the closet
What Are Those Rocks In My Pan?
The placer mineral identification key is designed to answer this question. It attempts to recognize all the minerals in your gold pan concentrates.
Gold Prospecting and Mining Summit
We have tentatively scheduled a date for next year’s show and we want you to know it’s not going to be on Easter weekend!
2002 Inductees to the National Mining Hall of Fame
Seven legendary figures of American mining will be enshrined in the National Mining Hall of Fame in ceremonies on Saturday, September 7, 2002, at The Little America Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The Bawl Mill
• Skeletons in the closet
• Stop horsing around!
• Know your veggies!
A New Prospecting Spot
Once indicators start showing up along or below a contact I start to get excited. When I have shale, and outcroppings of diorite with iron-red, gritty soil and some clay thrown in, I really get lightheaded. I may be a mile away from the nearest diggings but that’s okay. I just found a spot that could provide some nice nugget hunting.
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The Bawl Mill
• Our Readers Say
• Guest Editorial—Unreasonable Interpretations
• 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
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
