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Relocating A Historic Vein
April 2008 by Don Robinson
Opportunities exist in both hardrock and placer. Production costs to operate a small placer mining project are a lot less than for a hardrock mine. Underground placers are a different story, but generally, recovering placer gold takes...
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Beyond The End of The Road
November 2008
Dale's research of known gold producing districts in southern California and his knowledge of metal detecting produced these large gold-quartz specimens. This certainly would make any trip a very good one, but it turned out to be just the...
Dale's research of known gold producing districts in southern California and his knowledge of metal detecting produced these large gold-quartz specimens. This certainly would make any trip a very good one, but it turned out to be just the...
Ask the Experts
April 2014
Relationship between limestone and gold
Relationship between limestone and gold
All About Minerals
November 2015
There are several common ways that new mineral crystals form and grow. Perhaps the simplest is when minerals form through the cooling of molten rock and the atoms bond together into mineral crystals.
There are several common ways that new mineral crystals form and grow. Perhaps the simplest is when minerals form through the cooling of molten rock and the atoms bond together into mineral crystals.
Basic Geology for the Independent Miner—Part IV Geology of Hardrock Gold Deposits
April 2006
Geologic processes can either concentrate or disperse gold and other elements from adjacent rocks. It is the results of the concentration processes that the prospector is most interested in.
Geologic processes can either concentrate or disperse gold and other elements from adjacent rocks. It is the results of the concentration processes that the prospector is most interested in.
You Want a Ripoff? Here's a Ripoff!!
June 1999
Submitted by Jeff Harris
Executive Director
People for the U.S.A.
Submitted by Jeff Harris
Executive Director
People for the U.S.A.
Researching Mineralized Areas
December 2015
There are a load of ways to do research, and I’m going to talk about how I do it—maybe you’ll get some ideas that will work for you, too.
There are a load of ways to do research, and I’m going to talk about how I do it—maybe you’ll get some ideas that will work for you, too.
Significant Progress for California Suction Gold Dredgers
January 2015
It was a milestone day in the battle to maintain the rights of miners to dredge on federal mining claims in California.
It was a milestone day in the battle to maintain the rights of miners to dredge on federal mining claims in California.
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