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Prospectors often wonder why gold deposits in veins like it does. Why is one vein rich while another is barren, even though they are only a few hundred feet apart?

Day three was a copy of day two. I started real low in the long wash to see if I could prove how far down the gold had made it.

Starting small with quick profitability gives you a lot of financial elbow room plus real-world experience that can be used for final mill design.

• Resolution Copper project moves closer to fruition in Arizona

I noticed an area which I could crawl through to keep going in a straight line. I got about three feet into the pile and Bob yelled for me to stop…

You find yourself with a bucketful of concentrates that you have accumulated over the season and consider the logical next step: to reduce the bucket of cons to a gold bar. Where do you begin?

I admit I was sitting on pins and needles, waiting to see if President Trump would sign the proposed Executive Order we presented with Public Lands for the People (PLP) prior to the expiration of his term in office.

There are times when being able to recognize a type of rock can make you a much more successful prospector.

Companion bills set to be proposed by state lawmakers and US Rep. Betty McCollum seek to block copper mining on federal lands…

If you have a bad case of gold fever like me, then it’s nice to know that you can get some of that pretty yellow metal almost any time of the year, wet or dry.

He made some casual conversation until he got around to what really brought him into my camper.

Excited for this first notable evidence, I returned to that riverbed, looking for another paystreak and obviously more jade.

Along with others named earlier, it is difficult to find any designated nominee seemingly willing to work well with either conservatives or Republicans or Trump loyalists, a fact which seems to suggest a continuing high level of tensions…

• Doing hard time, making easy money
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