Platinum Placers and Nuggets

April 2007 by Chris Ralph

Looking Back

March 2000
Excerpts from California Mining Journal, our original title, published 50 years ago this month.

A Few Prospecting Notes From Jim Straight

November 2002
The article that appeared in the October 2002 Issue of ICMJ, “Confessions of a Professional Nuggetshooter,” by Lunk, is an example of how to use a “deep-seeking-type” metal detector to lay down a grid pattern to “mine” eluvial placer gold after prospecting and finding the first nugget as the locus.

Ask The Experts: Can you help me identify these items?

June 2010
Q: Can you help me identify these items?

Journeys in the Kingman Quadrangle—Part III

October 2007
The sun is teasing the horizon in the heart of the Mojave. Soon, the exciting nightlife will end as the lizards and desert rats return to their homes.

Geobotany: Plants Associated With Mineral Deposits

November 2014
Science has shown, over the past few centuries, that there is a direct correlation between certain plants and their geophysical surroundings.

Sunnyside, Arizona

March 2000
The little-known Sunnyside district in Cochise County, Arizona, is on the southwest side of the Huachuca Mountains, which reach elevations in excess of 9,000 feet.

Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices

August 2013

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