The Bawl Mill

July 2018 by Staff

• Drug smuggling tunnels filled with environmental delays and red tape
• Did we make the list?
• A whopper of an error

Looking Back

May 2007
Excerpts from California Mining Journal, our original title, published 50 years ago this month.

Small Mine Selective Blasting

January 2000
Drill holes in a mineralized vein often penetrate hidden layers of poor ore which, after blasting, end up diluting the production quality. Disseminated gold ores carrying two ounces per ton may be identical in appearance to adjacent vein material...

Pick Up Austria's New Coin—If You Can Lift It

November 2004
The Austrian Mint recently unveiled its new coin—a 68-pound, 24-carat gleaming gold disc worth about $500,000—touting it as the world’s largest and a powerful investment tool.

Ask The Experts - Sampling and assays

May 2019

The Hunch

February 2019

The mysteries of this spot were only just starting to develop. There is nothing but very bland granite-type rocks here,  meaning no bold, favorable indicators.

Proper Placer Sample Processing

November 2013
...your sampling procedures should not be designed to catch gold your mining technique will never recover.

Wyoming's Billion Dollar Nugget—The Trilogy Ends

July 2011
With eight loads processed, a pumpkin-size rock fell into the hopper, stopping the whole operation until I could lift it out.

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