Recreational Gold Panning on the South Yuba River

July 1999 by Associated Press

Search for the Legendary Sierra Azul

June 2001
One of the most unique mining stories to derive from the days of the Spanish conquest of the Southwest is the legendary story of the Sierra Azul, or “Blue Mountain” of Arizona. The first reports of what some historians maintain is nothing more than mere myth, came in the middle of the seventeenth century, and it survived as a frontier tradition into the nineteenth century.

When Legends Were Made and Fortunes Found

August 2011
Sylvester Smith and his younger brother Nathan were among this group who rode and led their Indian ponies, while climbing the rugged Salmon River breaks and rockhewn mountains, looking for a path that would lead them up and over the uncharted wilderness.

MMAC & PLP Update

March 2016

Just prior to our press deadline, we learned that a bill had been introduced in the Idaho House of Representatives to redefine suction gold dredging as a preferred use in public waterways in Idaho.

The Bawl Mill

November 2002
• “Dole”ing out spam
• Martinis with the Mayor
• FBI is afraid of a mouse
• Politically and fashionably correct

MMAC & PLP Update

November 2015
Even more prospectors arrived on Saturday morning, and drywashers and detectors were in use for much of the day...

Watch Out for Split Estates When Filing Your Claim

December 2017

The only thing that saved me was talking to a local miner who gave me a “heads up” that private individuals owned all the mineral rights in that section.

Melman on Gold & Silver

August 2016
It is hard to imagine any month during the thirty years I have been writing this column which had more bombshell headlines than the past thirty days.

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