The Bawl Mill

September 2002 by Staff

Placer Gold in the Ortiz Mountains

January 2009
New Mexico’s Ortiz Mountains rise in irregular volcanic peaks above the surrounding plains, or llano, some 30 miles northeast of Albuquerque and about 14 miles to the south of my home outside the state capital of Santa Fe.

The Bawl Mill

June 2016
• EPA backs down in Wyoming
• UN Chairman took on more than a mission

Melman on Gold & Silver

May 2015
Long-term, the outlook remains very favorable—but the obvious and important question is when we might expect a solid bull market revival to take place.

Internet Forum Gold

February 2020

I made my way up past where I left off and the wash was going to end in about 100 feet. It was then I got a sweet signal.

Drive Under Way to Restore the Rights of Suction Dredgers

September 2009
California Governor Schwarzenegger signed SB 670 on August 6, 2009, which temporarily halts suction dredging in California until a new Environmental Impact Report (EIR) is completed. This was despite a request from...

Montana Mining Association Raising Cash

October 1999
The Montana Mining Association is trying to raise more than $150,000 to pay lawyers to continue the battle to overturn Initiative 137, the 1998 ballot issue that banned cyanide processing at most new or expanded gold mines.

Montana's Virginia City Has Golden Legacy

December 2001
The discovery of gold at Alder Creek, centrally located in Madison County, Montana, was unusually well documented, with the date and time placed at May 26th, 1863, at about 4 o’clock in the afternoon. A group of six miners had been searching the area with little luck until the leader, Bill Fairweather, spotted an exposed area of promising bedrock. He dug up a shovel full of dirt and put it in Henry Edgar’s pan for washing. About the same time that Edgar was busy washing out the pan, Fairweather was poking around the bedrock with his pocketknife. Both spotted the color of gold at once.

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