What To Look For—And Look Out For—In A Placer Mineral Report

May 2015 by Jim Halloran

The Underground Mining Adventure Continues

January 2019

Our group of independent miners have been busy crafting a uniquely designed ladder/ore cart track from the bottom of an 85-foot mine shaft in a historical hard rock mine.

Ask The Experts

March 2016
How do I set up a Miller table?

Drywashing Arizona Gold

January 2016
His findings were not exaggerated—after running 82 buckets of gravels in two days we had a remarkable 27.8 grams of gold!

Ask The Experts

June 2016
Q: How do I improve my small-scale mining operation’s gold production?

The Seven Troughs Mining District

September 2016
The favorable geology of the northeastern and central parts of the Seven Troughs Range are the parts most interesting to prospectors. They are underlain by a thick sequence of Tertiary volcanic rocks, mostly rhyolites and andesites.

Gold in Quartz

February 2016
Because quartz and gold may be deposited together across a considerable range of temperatures, not all quartz veins are the same, and there are several different types of gold-quartz deposits.

Small-Scale Concentrating and Recovery Methods

April 2011
The first step in my recovery process after milling the ore to the desired size is to table it. On this particular ore, I get good results milling it to minus 100 mesh.

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