Treasures for Sale

March 2000 by Associated Press

Picks & Pans: The Ten-Pennyweight Nugget

November 1999
It was June 6th, 1999 at 7:00 am when I started hiking to the river with my final load of dredge equipment. Hearing the flow of water in the South Fork of the Yuba River and the call of birds up and down the canyon, I added some whistles of my own just to annoy the nearby birds.

Habits, Procedure, and Where Is The Gold?

August 2016
In my early days of nugget hunting things were fairly simple. Just headphones, a pack, a detector and a small pick were all I needed for my search for great wealth.

Alaska Mining Industry Sees 5% Growth in 1999

April 2000
For the fourth straight year, the state's mining industry broke the billion-dollar mark in revenue, according to a state report.

The Manson Mine

November 2001
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.

In Pursuit of Gold and Silver in the Sierra Madres—Buying the Pilot Mill

July 2007
In 2005, my wife and I, along with our supervisor Horacio, made numerous business and supply trips from Arivechi, Sonora, to the capital of Sonora, Hermosillo. This is a distance of 135 miles along a very narrow paved mountain road.

Gold Mine Proposed in Jefferson County

August 2007
What could be the first underground gold mine to open in Montana in at least a decade is proposed near the ghost town of Elkhorn in Jefferson County, Montana.

Utah Proposes Using Eminent Domain Against Federal Government

March 2010
Conservative Utah lawmakers want to spark a US Supreme Court case that could ultimately allow states to develop resource-rich parcels of land that are now off limits where the federal government is the landlord.

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