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The Curious Saga of the Jack Wade Creek Dredge
July 2010 by Jim Halloran
As the river dredgers soon learned, it was not a good idea to leave your dredge in the Fortymile River over winter.Additional articles that might interest you...
Relocating A Historic Vein
April 2008
Opportunities exist in both hardrock and placer. Production costs to operate a small placer mining project are a lot less than for a hardrock mine. Underground placers are a different story, but generally, recovering placer gold takes...

Searching for a Paying Hardrock Deposit
December 2007
Quartz float rock is always intriguing. Where is the vein it came from if it’s still in existence, and is it carrying some gold? Because of the possibility of the quartz carrying some color, we are always looking, checking, detecting, crushing, assaying...

The "Rip-Roaring" Flood That Washed Out Mazuma, Nevada
March 2005
Okay, now for the story of not only the Mazuma flash-flood, but also of early day happenings in the surrounding Seven Troughs area as related to me by Gloria’s (late) grandmother, Gommie. At this time (1953-1954) Gommie was in her late 60s and often reminisced regarding her early life in Iowa as a schoolteacher...
Okay, now for the story of not only the Mazuma flash-flood, but also of early day happenings in the surrounding Seven Troughs area as related to me by Gloria’s (late) grandmother, Gommie. At this time (1953-1954) Gommie was in her late 60s and often reminisced regarding her early life in Iowa as a schoolteacher...
The Bawl Mill
March 2015
• A sobering revelation
• "Greenbacks" for green energy
• A sobering revelation
• "Greenbacks" for green energy
Backwards Find
July 2013
I furiously started pulling material out of the side wall and putting it in my scoop. It didn't take long to discover that the source of the scream was from a one-ounce chunk...

Give That Club Claim A Chance
August 2015
My first trip to the claim was the tip-off that there might be larger gold to be found. I brought my puffer drywasher and my dad to a local prospecting club outing that was held at the claim.

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