The Golden Triangle of Sonora, Mexico

May 2001 by Edgar B. Heylmun, PhD

The Bawl Mill

May 2016

• Can’t get no satisfaction...from the government
• Working for Uncle Sam...

Shortage of Mining Engineers Projected

February 2005
As decade-high gold and silver prices spark a renewed interest in mining in the West, there are few mining education programs and fewer students earning mining engineering degrees due to two decades of decline in the US mining industry.

Gryphon Gold and the Borealis Project

March 2008
Strange things do indeed occur. Here we were in western Nevada’s Walker Lake District, normally one of the driest areas for mining operations in America, and we couldn’t access a sizeable portion of Gryphon Gold’s project areas due to...

Gold and Silver Deposit May Be World's Largest

June 1999
A crater in an undersea volcano off Japan may contain the world's largest gold nugget ever found...

Border Silver

January 2003
There is a sizable area that straddles the U.S.-Mexico border where native silver occurs in shear zones at relatively shallow depths. The district is in the low but rugged Pajarito Mountains, the highest point of which is 5,838 feet at Cerro Ruido, on the Mexican side. The deceptively rough terrain forced the first border surveyors, in 1855, to kill several mules and horses because of their injuries.

Ask The Experts - Can you suggest proper discrimination settings for my detector?

February 2020

Picks & Pans: Prospecting at Mills Creek, Alaska

March 2000
I particularly enjoyed this little expedition. It is always nice to get out and spend time with my father, Bud Herschbach. He has taken a liking to Mills Creek and was anxious to return and look for more nuggets.

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