USFS Roadless Comments Reopened

August 2001 by Staff

Looking Back

February 2001
Excerpts from California Mining Journal, our original title, published 50 years ago this month.

US Rare Earths: We Have & We Have Not

August 2017

America’s premier source of strategic REEs were regulated out of business and 300 employees lost their jobs. For almost fifteen years America has been dependent on the communist Chinese cartel.

Picks & Pans: Detecting at Ganes Creek

April 2006
My long and tedious trip started July 9, 2005, from Bradley International Airport in Connecticut on a flight to Atlanta. I changed planes and continued on to Anchorage, Alaska.

Judge Rules Against Oregon Miner

December 2009
A federal judge convicted Oregon miner Clifford Tracy of illegal mining while digging for gold on US Forest Service land.

Silver Hill, North Carolina

November 2000
To the writer's knowledge, this was the first discovery of silver and lead in North Carolina and perhaps one of the first official discoveries of silver east of the Mississippi River.

Open Letter to the BLM

May 1999
from H. Mason Coggin, PE & LS

Tips for Detecting Nugget Patches

April 2015

Certainly many other successful nugget hunters have mentioned these methods; hopefully I can add to or clarify these methods.

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