The Bawl Mill

May 2001 by Scott Harn

Utah's Crescent Creek Placers

November 2009
The Crescent Creek placers are considered to be one of Utah's few commercial grade placers, but they are marginal and difficult to work at a profit.

Gold Rush Ship Uncovered in San Francisco

October 2001
Workers at a hotel construction site uncovered a Gold Rush-era ship that had been buried for decades under the streets of the city’s Financial District.

Evaluating a Placer Discovery

March 2000
Gold mineralization is usually first noted in an area by examining material weathered from the source and liberated or washed downhill from it.

PLP Update

June 2023

Melman on Gold & Silver

August 2016
It is hard to imagine any month during the thirty years I have been writing this column which had more bombshell headlines than the past thirty days.

Melman on Gold & Silver

June 2010
...we cannot help but wonder exactly how nation after nation, already massively in debt and presently burdened with monumental operating deficits, is going to come up with such largesse. We also wonder exactly how going ever-more deeply into debt is going to resolve a debt crisis.

U.S. Dept. of Interior Inspectors in Arizona

March 2000
Glynn Burkhardt, president of the Arizona Small Mine Operators Association, has a small mine outside of Tucson, Arizona. He recently received a visit from U.S. Department of Interior...

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