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Using Legal Subdivision
May 2001 by Tom Kitchar
“Legal Subdivision” is a method used to describe various tracts of land, including most placer mining claims. Anyone wanting to research mining claims in order to find “open ground,” for the purpose of prospecting and/or locating a mining claim, will need to know how to use this tool.All About Garnets
I get a lot of questions from prospectors about garnets, their value and what they tell us about the geology of some types of mineral deposits. So I thought it would be a good idea to take a closer look at the lowly garnet and learn a bit more about it.
Proper Spacing of Placer Sample Sites
The zone of influence of each sample must be carefully considered when deciding how far sample sites should be spaced from each other.
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Roadless Rule back in court again
• New mining regulations considered in Europe
• PLP in court on behalf of miners
• Karuk Tribe to appeal
• NEPA rewrite drive gets boost from Katrina
The Bawl Mill
• Science fiction?
• It was just environmentally friendly landscaping...
• A very generous pension plan
The Ups and Downs of Geologic Faults
Faults are fractures, breaks and broken zones in the Earth’s crust where one side of the break has moved relative to the other, and they come in many different varieties.
Detecting at Old Hydraulic Mines
I finally got out recently for my first full, long weekend prospecting trip of the year. Normally I would have been out much sooner, but we had a real late spring in the Sierra Nevada this year with lots of late rain and snow continuing through all...
Administration Considers Bypassing Congress
With Congress showing little willingness to act, the Clinton administration is weighing whether to designate a dozen scenic and historic sites in the West as federal monuments to assure their protection.
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The Bawl Mill
• Original Sixteen to One Goes to Court—Challenges MSHA Citations Part II
• The Golden Triangle of Sonora, Mexico
• Placer vs. Lode Gold
• Gold Tellurides: Tellurium, an Assay Impurity
• Court Hears Arguments Over Rights to Shipwreck
• Picks & Pans: How to Succeed in a Small Mine, A Case History: 1990-2000
• Charcoal Crucible Recipe
• Discovery of the Mountain Pass REO Deposit
• Romance of the Old Silver King
• Record-Breaking Alaskan Nugget for Sale
• Company Notes
• Nevada Gold Production Up Despite Lower Prices
• Gold in Guatemala
• Bush Taps Utah Resident for Labor Post
• Looking Back
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
• Honda Pares Down Use of Precious Metals in Autos
