Small Mining Operations
Small-Scale Concentrating and Recovery Methods
April 2011 by Bill McCuskey

Customizing Your Dredge

California to Allow Suction Dredging in 2019?
There are a few questions you will need to ask yourself before you apply for a suction dredge permit from the State Water Resources Control Board.
Conductive Minerals and Your Metal Detector

Gold Rush in the Congo—Part II

Proper Placer Sample Processing
...your sampling procedures should not be designed to catch gold your mining technique will never recover.
How to Refine Silver—Pt I
Silver refining has been used from ancient times to change the characteristics of the metal. Early metallurgists refined silver by heating it a couple hundred degrees above its melting point and holding the metal at an elevated temperature for a period of time.
The ABCs of XRF
Fast forward to present day and the XRF has come of age. Pull the trigger on the hand-held device and you get a nearly instant assay of the surface of a rock.
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