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Resolution Copper Mine, Arizona
March 2005 by Edgar B. Heylmun, PhD
The Resolution copper mine is near Superior, Arizona (population 3,500), along the west side of the Pinal Mountains in central Arizona, 64 miles east of downtown Phoenix. The region receives about 16 inches of rain per year, enough to support chaparral vegetation.Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Election impact
• New Washington State small-scale regulations
In Pursuit of Gold and Silver in the Sierra Madres—Establishing a Mining Company in Mexico
My wife Ann and I moved three years ago to the Pueblo of Arivechi, Sonora, in order to be near the mining concessions we owned and to build a precious metals concentrating mill.
Picks & Pans: Exploring Wyoming's High Desert
In an untamed and lonely part of Wyoming’s high desert sits a deposit of gold so large, and so vast, that even today its volume remains a mystery. With an aerial extent of over 10 square miles and a depth of nearly 7,000 feet...
Melman on Gold & Silver
This is yet another potential danger to the financial and social health of America—and one which the precious metals markets appear to be taking under consideration.
PLP Update
New Challenge Cards From Public Lands For The People
The Bawl Mill
• What's that smell?
• Third time is not a charm...
• As old as the hills...really
• "Governor Sure"
• $500,000 + a trip to Greece + one renovation = how many teaching jobs?
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The Bawl Mill
• $100 Million Lost on Faulty ESA Listing
• Geologists Locate Giant Gemstones
• Miner Wins Important Victory Against Forest Service
• Philippines Asks Foreigners to Invest in Mining
• The Art of Finding Coarse Gold Part IV—Recovery of Coarse Gold From Alluvial Placers
• Healthy Interest at Recent Vancouver Conferences
• Idaho Silver Miners Come to Aid of Tsunami Victims
• Picks & Pans: In Search of a Vein: Looking for Hardrock in the Talkeetna Mountains
• Researchers Trace History of Hope Diamond
• The "Rip-Roaring" Flood That Washed Out Mazuma, Nevada
• Looking Back
• Company Notes
• China Ups Investment in Foreign Minerals
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices