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The Elusive Mother Lode
May 2004 by Lloyd Brewer
With history so often repeating itself, you can’t go wrong searching for gold using modern exploration techniques and exploration theories in regions of historic gold activity.
How to Evaluate Mineral Claims—What to Know Before You Buy
Even though they have put down thousands of dollars, the buyers often stop paying on their claims part way through the process after they realize they’ve been duped, but the company just sells it again to another buyer.
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.
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• San Bernardino National Forest Closure
• Interior secretary wants reforms to 1872 Mining Law
• Nevada drops lawsuit over mining regulations
• Environmental extremists sue over mine operation
Ask the Experts
How do sluicing and drywashing compare in effciency?
5th Circuit Ruling May Benefit Miners
This ruling comes at an opportune time, just as suction dredge miners are dealing with new proposed regulations in several western states. Be sure to cite this case when you provide comments on the regulations!
The Bawl Mill
- “Pensions before Honesty. Great slogan.”
- An untimely death…
The Manson Mine
The Manson Mine. That’s what they called it in Ballarat in 1969. The name stuck even after Crazy Charlie Manson and the girls got hauled out of California’s Panamint Range behind Ballarat in handcuffs and ended up in prison for the Tate-LaBianca murders.
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The Bawl Mill
• Economic Analysis on Critical Habitat for Bull Trout
• Prospecting for Copper
• US Mining Industry Outlook Brighter
• Gold in the Chinle Formation
• Gold Dredgers Rescue Threatened Fish
• Gold Mine Plans Upheld in Lawsuit
• DOI Computers Back Online
• Picks & Pans: Nuggets by the Dozen in Alaska
• Historical Mining Methods
• Clarence King, Geologist
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
• Melman on Gold & Silver
