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Progress Report on Washington State Small-Scale Regulations
April 2005 by Scott Harn
Washington State has some of the most far-reaching, restrictive and overzealous regulations in the United States regarding small-scale prospecting and mining. Take one look at the “Gold and Fish” book, which lays out regulations for...
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August 1999
South African gold miners are turning their anger towards Britain, charging that the sale of 25 tons of gold by the Bank of England has depressed gold prices and put them out of work.
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Teenager Finds Large Nugget
September 2008
Fourteen-year-old Jacob Hopkins and his father Mike headed out like they do most weekends, to do a little fishing and hunt for gold.
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February 2000
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Higher Copper Price Brings Hope, Jobs
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Buoyed by higher copper prices, Chino Mines is reopening its ore concentrator and hiring workers.
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The Ely Copper-Gold District of Nevada
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The main ore deposits of the Ely district are associated with an east-west belt of altered and mineralized rocks measuring about one mile wide that extends 8 miles westward from Ely.
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