Visionaries, Scoundrels, and Gamblers

February 2000 by Associated Press

Gifts of Gold for University of Zimbabwe

September 2009
The design of the makorokoza’s handmade wooden pans has not changed over the centuries. Until Rege introduced it to them they had seen nothing like a spiral wheel concentrator.

Record $11 Million Fine for California Mine

July 2013
State regulators imposed a record $11 million fine on the operators of a gold mine in the Sierra foothills east of Sacramento.

Editorial

February 2002
Congressmen Richard W. Pombo and John E. Peterson’s Response to Planting of False Evidence by Environmental Extremists

Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices

October 2018

Legislative and Regulatory Update

September 2015

• EPA gets caught

• Suction dredging update

Basic Geology for the Independent Miner—Part I Recognizing and Understanding Minerals

January 2006
Many individual prospectors would like to know a little more about the geology of gold deposits. There is no doubt that in the final analysis, no matter how well you operate your equipment, unless you can find the places where gold is...

Gold Deposits in Skarn

July 2003
Skarn consists of coarse-grained calcium, magnesium, iron, and aluminum silicates formed by hydrothermal solutions, which replace limestone or dolomite near the contact with an igneous intrusion. The contact metamorphism is usually caused by an intrusion such as quartz monzonite, granodiorite, or similar rock type, which may or may not be mineralized.

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