The Bawl Mill

October 2009 by Staff

Silver Bonanza in the Sierra Madre; The Glorious Past of Batopilas—Part III

December 2007
In 1880, Alexander Roby Shepherd, former governor of Washington, DC, prepared to move his wife and family of six children to the wilds of the Sierra Madre. Going with him would be mining men, cooks, assistants, a bookkeeper and others to assist in the new adventure.

Melman on Gold & Silver

July 2010
... if the “renewed prosperity” concept fails to materialize and additional crises are on their way—each one to be met with currency expansions and worsening conditions—then we would speculate that gold and silver will move higher.

Legislative and Regulatory Update

February 2012
• Our Federal Landlord
• One down, two to go
• Challenging timing windows in Washington State
• More roadblocks to mining

Mergers Continue at Record Pace

October 2006
Mergers and acquisitions continue at a record pace in 2006 as companies attempt to replace dwindling reserves. Mining companies find that it is more expedient to purchase additional reserves by acquisition than to spend time and money for exploration and startup, even more so when their stock prices are much higher as compared to recent years.

All About Minerals

November 2015
There are several common ways that new mineral crystals form and grow. Perhaps the simplest is when minerals form through the cooling of molten rock and the atoms bond together into mineral crystals.

Resurrecting An Old Hard Rock Mine

December 2018

There were nice sections of vein material at the end of several drifts, like they just stopped work one day and walked away.

Melman on Gold & Silver

March 2008
News during the past month seemed to focus directly on economic and political events close to home in the good old USA. As talk of recession—or worse—mounted, and as one stock market segment after another weakened sharply, the economic and political leaders of the nation sprang into decisive action.

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