Platinum—Group Metals

September 1999 by Guest Writer

Exploring Snakehead

April 2015
On our fourth trip, we finally reached the top edge of the old hydraulic pit, and it was monstrous.

The Bawl Mill

November 2018

• Senators want you to help to pay California rent
• Someone’s got a bone to pick…

Ask The Experts—Using classifiers

December 2010
Q: I would like to know how to use a classifier when I dump my gravel into my sluice box. I would also like to know what sizes classifiers come in. I know that they are in sizes like -3/4. What does the “minus” in the size mean? Thanks for any help you can give me.

Ask the Experts—How do you determine how far a piece of gold has traveled in a stream?

December 2011

Miners Making the Rules and Regulations?

October 2015
How would you like it if you could make the actual rules and regulations governing your own business? A dream, right? Well, the existing Federal Mining Law gives a claimholder this ability in the context of organized Mining Districts.

Corner Country Gold

August 2002
In 1845, the intrepid Australian explorer Captain Charles Sturt set out from Adelaide, the capital of the Colony of South Australia, to search for a supposed inland sea in the center of the continent. Travelling northeast through South Australia into the northwest corner of the Colony of New South Wales, he and his party of 15 men found themselves in the midst of a fierce drought.

Ask The Experts—Is it possible for a mountain range to have good lode gold deposits and yet the area streams not carrying like deposits of gold?

May 2011
Q: Is it possible for a mountain range to have good lode gold deposits and yet the area streams not carrying like deposits of gold? Or do the two go hand-in-hand?

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