The Bawl Mill

September 2004 by Scott Harn

Ask the Experts—Looking up mining claims on the Internet

December 2011
Q: Is there an Internet source ... that one can access to review which claims and at which location are the claims that BLM administrators close each year?

Melman on Gold & Silver

December 2009
History may not exactly repeat itself, but we have once again been receiving a double-dose of headlines regarding gold for the second straight month as the yellow metal has soared to yet another series of records,

Millie's Tailings

January 2000
"Gold does strange things to people."

Gold Prospecting With LiDar

November 2023

LiDAR Opens a New Window to the Earth

Ask The Experts—Extraction of micro gold from black sands

October 2011
I know big mining companies use cyanide and other leach systems to recover gold from ore. Is this the only economically feasible way to recover the values?

Simple Mine Surveying With Basic Hand Tools

April 2021

…there is an easy way to create a reasonably accurate map without any fancy instruments.

Miners Still Waiting for Bonding Recommendations from DOI

June 2003
Bonding regulation changes went into effect in December 2001, requiring many small miners who had been operating under a Notice of Intent to obtain bonding for their operations.

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