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Teenager Finds Large Nugget
September 2008 by Staff
Fourteen-year-old Jacob Hopkins and his father Mike headed out like they do most weekends, to do a little fishing and hunt for gold.Australia's First Gold Rush
Gold was found in California a few years before the first official finds were made in Australia. It was on February 12, 1851, that Edward Hammond Hargreaves flashed around specks of gold he’d found in nearby Lewis Ponds Creek and sparked the...
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Miners win latest round
• New push to close off lands in New Mexico
• Close call in Peru
• New underground safety requirements
Ask The Experts
• Two questions: Is fool's gold magnetic? And how do you go about filing a miing claim?
Picks & Pans: Mining Tungsten Ore—A Case History
In 1977, when the price of tungsten hit one of its highs, three of us formed U.S. Western Mines to look for scheelite, the mineral ore of tungsten. Union Carbide Corporation was purchasing raw tungsten ore at...
Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
Over the Divide
Lesa Dale Barton, formerly of Armadillo Mining Shop of Grants Pass, Oregon, passed away September 6, 2006 after bravely fighting cancer for several months.
Continuing Hard Rock Exploration
We had been picking away at it, but the going was mightly slow. Why not use some explosives to advance a little quicker?
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