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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.Ask the Experts
Q: How do I get gold out of a saturated solution of salt with nitric acid?
High Country Dredging in Kaufman Creek, Colorado
I opened the front door of my house at 5:00 AM to find it raining hard and water standing in puddles all over the driveway. Just great! It hadn’t rained for 3 weeks, and on the morning we were leaving for a weekend dredging trip, the weather decided to change.
Company Notes
• Crown Resources Corp.
• X-Cal Resources Ltd.
• Altair International
• Royal Gold, Inc.
The Pay Streak: Redefined With Metal Detectors
The time-honored objective in recovering gold from placers has always been to discover and recover gold from the detritus of both known and unknown lodes. The traditional method to recover gold from desert dry placers was to locate and work the enriched gravels known as the “pay streak.” This pay streak was usually found directly over false or true bedrock and within the upper few inches of the bedrock itself.
Looking Back
Excerpts from California Mining Journal, our original title, published 50 years ago this month.
From the Editor
There are several news items of interest here at ICMJ’s Prospecting and Mining Journal.
Industry Urges Restraint on Mining Reforms
Wyoming mining interests say the federal government doesn't need tougher environmental cleanup rules governing mineral extraction from public lands.
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