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So let’s dive in and see what I can do to convince you that this is the year you should be out staking your own claims.

There weren’t as many pieces of gold, but what I did find was bigger. As I worked my way down towards the spot that I had been working the first three days, I noticed a large crack that crossed the river.

Public Lands for the People has agreed to support the US Supreme Court appeal with financial assistance and with the filing of an amicus brief. (We here at the Mining Journal have also agreed to participate in the amicus brief.)

It’s not easy to figure out what is best without testing, and so a certain level of confusion has developed about how small the ore ought to be crushed.

We started off excited and enthusiastic as we began hiking up the river, daydreaming about finding big gold.

George was considering filling his dredge floats with closed-cell foam, ensuring that there would be no area available within each float for flooding.

Because of multiple take-out points along a ditch line, the ditches themselves become a wealth of knowledge to us present-day miners.

We descended hunched over, down a long, steep, wooden staircase to the 1,000-level.

Some of the wire forms are strange and fantastic, with wires sticking out in twisted, seemingly random directions. Others have deformed crystals and all of them have significant value to collectors.

I made my way up past where I left off and the wash was going to end in about 100 feet. It was then I got a sweet signal.

It should come as no surprise that gold and silver acted similarly, rising sharply during the early hours of the crisis and retreating as tensions abated.

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