“The evidence is clear—mineral deposits alone are not enough to attract precious commodity investment dollars...”

There is a material processing principle widely used in large milling operations to improve recovery that is poorly understood by most of the micro-mining and prospecting community...

Gold specimens that include visible crystal formations are among the rarest, most attractive and most valuable forms of gold to be found.

When it was all setup and running, you had everything coming off the dredge riffles into the boil box. At the hole section, some of the water got sucked down and pulled a lot of black sand and over heavies…

For the prospector, knowing what oxidized hydrothermal alteration looks like in the field is an important exploration tool.

May 18, 2019, after 26 years, I had finally saved enough money. I bought my one-way ticket to Fairbanks, Alaska, and I started off by finding a new job…

At first, I tried to shift things around, but then a hand with a rock would appear, so I would stop trying to adjust my gear and grab the rock to keep things moving.