Researching and Staking Mining Claims

December 2006 by Chris Ralph

One of the greatest opportunities still available to Americans is the opportunity to stake and own your own mining claim. Much of the Western US consists of lands that are open to claim by any US citizen...

Zeballos Gold Camp, British Columbia

June 2004
The mining and logging camp of Zeballos (pop. 272) is located on an arm of Esperanza Inlet, on the southwest side of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Vancouver Island is 301 miles, by road, and reaches elevations as high as 7,249 feet.

Gold in Guyana—Part II: Process Optimization at Sacre Coeur Minerals' Lower Puruni Alluvial Mining Project

August 2012
In Part Two of my two-part series I describe the mechanized alluvial gold mining operation on the lower Puruni River launched by Sacre Coeur Minerals in 2011.

Babbitt Wants Moratorium in Siskiyou National Forest

February 2001

Ganes Creek Hits 10 Years—Part I

May 2012
Find huge gold nuggets with your metal detector! That has been the promise, and for a lucky group of detectorists in the Ganes Creek “Pound Club” the reality of finding gold at Ganes Creek, Alaska.

Melman on Gold & Silver

February 2008
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.

Legislative and Regulatory Update

September 2010
• Leaked documents show BLM’s true intentions
• New Oregon small-scale prospecting rules

Elections May Bring Rush to Republic of Congo

August 2006
Elections in the Republic of Congo may bring a mining boom to a country that has been ravaged by wars and corruption.

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