The Colorado Mineral Belt

July 2000 by Edgar B. Heylmun, PhD

Quick Thinking & Rescue Devices Save Two Lives

June 2000
MSHA (Mine Safety and Health Administration) reports that a pair of miners used oxygen-supplying self-rescue devices to save two of their co-workers who were in danger of suffocation at the Ohio Valley Coal Company's Powhatan No.6 mine near St. Clairsville, Ohio.

A Guide to Overlooked Gold Deposits—Part II

October 2003
The following are situations that the modern prospector would do well to research. Some specific areas are described, but more importantly they present background into what the author feels are worthwhile and generally overlooked situations...

Legislative and Regulatory Update

January 2014
• Pacific Legal Foundation joins effort to overturn California dredging moratorium
• PLP fund drive continues

Great Basin Gold

June 2001
The Great Basin, first named by Capt. John Fremont in 1843, consists of a vast region of internal drainage, occupying most of Nevada and western Utah, and parts of California, Oregon, and Idaho.

Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices

April 2012

Melman on Gold & Silver

March 2010
Budgetary deficits can be reversed by a combination of only two factors; increasing revenues and decreasing expenditures, and we would prefer a combination of both factors occurring simultaneously. Unfortunately, it appears to us that President Obama failed to respond to such simple considerations.

Our Readers Say

January 2000
• "Well, that's what we've been told, isn't it?"

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