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Prospecting Ores Shoots and Hidden Veins for Specimen-Grade Gold Samples
June 1999 by W. Dan Hausel
Until about 20 years ago, interest in Wyoming's gold was at an all-time low, not only because of relatively-low gold prices, but also due to the lack of information on many of the state's gold deposits.
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• California tries another route to restrict miners and dredgers
Fabulous Florence—The Golden Town of Idaho
In September 1861, on a round-about prospecting journey homeward, five California gold miners discovered gold in the area now called Florence. While watering the horses, one of the men noticed a golden color on a piece of slate bedrock in the stream...
Stimulus Package Provides Potential Tax Savings For Miners
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, a nearly $800 billion stimulus package, includes nearly $300 billion in potential tax savings. Every prospector, miner and mining operator can share in over $75 billion in tax benefits for 2009 and 2010.
New Silver and Zinc Mine Slated for Montana
Arizona-based International Silver Inc. is proposing an underground silver and zinc mine in Montana and has asked Butte-Silver Bow County to lease them the surface and mineral rights to hundreds of acres.
Melman on Gold & Silver
What a start to the year! In just the first two weeks of 2008, we saw the price of gold explode to the highest levels in history at $900 per ounce, Crude Oil reach $100 per barrel, some of the world’s largest financial institutions collapse in market value, unrest spread in Pakistan following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the worst jobs report from the Department of Labor in at least two years and the continued erosion of residential real estate values.
The Bawl Mill
• Court to government: “Can you hear me now?”
• There’s gold in them thar… holes?
• FEMA (Free Easy Money for All)
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• GATA Launches Investigation into Gold Price Manipulation
• N.Y. Congressman Introduces Utah Wilderness Bill
• Gold in Mono County, California
• Randsburg—Still Going Strong
• Exploration Drilling
• You Want a Ripoff? Here's a Ripoff!!
• Mining Claim Maintenance Fee Due
• Gold and Silver Deposit May Be World's Largest
• Aviators Carry Gold Coins
• Picks & Pans: Koyukuk River Gold—Prospecting Alaska's Brooks Range
• Congressional Request to EPA: "Leave Our Kids Alone!"
• Quartz and Chalcedony in Wyoming
• Company Notes
• Gold at Quartzville, Oregon
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
• Looking Back
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