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Smugglers Causing Problems in South Africa
December 2006 by Associated Press
Rogue miners in South Africa are looting underground mines, sometimes traveling over one-thousand feet down to extract gold, reported Reuters and several other sources.Additional articles that might interest you...
The Bawl Mill
November 2007
• Affordable housing... for the rich!
• Thank goodness we have rules to eliminate wateful spending
• Affordable housing... for the rich!
• Thank goodness we have rules to eliminate wateful spending
The "Drumstick"
February 2002
These gifts of nature are all unique to say the least. Any large nugget is an added blessing to the long toiling hours a miner puts in on his claim. Each golden clunker found is an added bonus. And each big one found will be discussed around the dinner table, or the fireplace.
These gifts of nature are all unique to say the least. Any large nugget is an added blessing to the long toiling hours a miner puts in on his claim. Each golden clunker found is an added bonus. And each big one found will be discussed around the dinner table, or the fireplace.
Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
October 2007
What's Left Behind
December 2012
I love to see old-timer workings while I am out detecting for gold. For one thing, it assures me that gold came from there. Second, it tells me gold should almost certainly still be there.

California Miners Locate Rich Pocket of Specimen Gold
February 2005
Over fifty pieces of dendritic gold, ranging from 1 gram up to 2.5 ounces, were recently discovered at a mine in the Allegheny Mining District in Northern California.

The Bawl Mill
March 2011
• He can manage the taxpayers' money, but not his own?
• Government debt to reach yet another milestone...
• Speaking of ObamaCare...
• He can manage the taxpayers' money, but not his own?
• Government debt to reach yet another milestone...
• Speaking of ObamaCare...
The Bawl Mill
March 2010
• Cash for Carts
• No photos please...
• We couldn’t have said it better ourselves
• Mother Nature to the rescue...
• Cash for Carts
• No photos please...
• We couldn’t have said it better ourselves
• Mother Nature to the rescue...
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