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The Search for Specimen (Pocket) Gold in the California Mother Lode
October 1999 by Dwight Juras, PhD
Any good miner can drift along a vein to find concentrations of gold if it is there, using good eyes and panning.
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Pacific Legal Foundation files suit to de-list Klamath salmon
• Draft EIS on Suction Dredging in the Siskiyou National Forest
• More Siskiyou National Forest news
• District Court rules in favor of Nicolet Minerals
• State Supreme Court backs mining company
Legislative and Regulatory Update
- NEPA comments due
- Update on latest US Supreme Court suction gold dredging appeal
- Washington State tries to restrict suction gold dredging
Important Court Cases
Siskiyou Regional Education Project (SREP) v. US Forest Service was appealed to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals; the Karuk's have abandoned their latest request for emergency regulations in California; and the California Regional Water Quality Control Board seeking comments "to protect stream and wetland systems."
Weathering, Erosion and Placers
The big interest to prospectors thinking about the effect of erosion is not what might happen long into the future, but what they might find in the rivers later this summer when the water levels go down.
The Bawl Mill
• Taxpayers may be in double jeopardy?
• Don't ask; won't tell...
• By the numbers...
Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
Looking Back
Excerpts from California Mining Journal, our original title, published 50 years ago this month.
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The Bawl Mill
• Our Readers Say
• The Economy, The Environment and Equity
• Carrizozo Lava Older Than Once Thought
• Montana Mining Association Raising Cash
• GATA Releases Open Letter to the Press
• WANTED: Mining Poets, Singers & Storytellers
• BLM Proposed Rule Making Affects Mining Claims
• Company Notes
• Mining Battle Case Under Advisement
• Sutro Tunnel a Big Draw
• Picks & Pans: Prospecting for Lode Gold
• Gemstones
• Dry Lakes in Nevada
• A Hairsbreadth from Death
• Special Suction Dredge Permits in Jeopardy
• Cartwrights Celebrate 40 Years in Nevada
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
• Looking Back
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