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The Bawl Mill
January 2000 by Staff
• Australians know how to do a fundraiser• She shared a toothbrush but...
• This IRS employee will share her winnings—with the IRS!...
• A diamond is forever (almost)...
Gold Deposits of the Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast has considerable gold reserves, and this nation has the largest area of greenstone belts prospective for gold in the continent.
MMAC Update
After many decades of closures, land-use restrictions, and over-regulation, miners and all other public land users may finally see some real relief due to the efforts of MMAC.
Ask The Experts: What is a Spanish needle?
Some fellow in Texas was selling a Spanish needle—a dousing device used to recover minerals in the old days. Do you know anything about these?
Squeezing Diamond Into Graphite
A major diamond mystery has finally been cracked. For 40 years, scientists have tried but failed to apply so much pressure on the hard rocks that they would become something other than diamond. Now researchers reported that they succeeded.
Who Says You Have to Own a Claim to Find Gold?
Most of us know making a profit as a small-scale miner is difficult; however, sometimes we combine luck with a little skill and bring home a few ounces of the yellow stuff.
The Bawl Mill
• From public representative to public nuisance
• Don’t call us; we’ll call you...
• A look at the numbers...
Prospecting Underground: Use Caution
In underground placer work, the contact point of the bedrock tunnel and the gravel is a very weak point and always has to be timbered. The bedrock here is thin, fractured, and the gravels loose from many years of oxidizing.
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Over the Divide
• Our Readers Say
• Letter from the Editor to our Readers and Advertisers
• Administration Considers Bypassing Congress
• First Woman to Draw Mining Pension
• Small Mine Selective Blasting
• Mohave Mountain Placers, Arizona
• High Court to Reconsider Wilderness Water Rights
• Sixteen to One Takes on MSHA
• Picks & Pans: Gold Mining on Joie Osgood Ranch
• Gold
• Company Notes
• Millie's Tailings
• Placer PGMs in Alaska
• Mogollon—New Mexico's Remote Gold Camp
• ICMJ 9th Annual Photo Contest Results
• The Other Minerals of Mt. Diablo
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
• Looking Back
