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November 2003 (Vol. 73, No. 3) $3.25

  • The Ball Mill

    • Bringing down the house
    • German "manhandlers"
    • Don't call us; we'll call you...
    • Laziness pays off
  • British Columbia to Streamline Filing of Mining Claims

    Tired of trudging through quagmires, over mountains and slipping into bloodsucker infested mud holes to stake your mining claim? Then perhaps you should consider British Columbia. BC is moving towards an Internet-based claim staking system that will allow you to stake your claims during football half-time festivities.
  • Legislative and Regulatory Update

    • Comments needed from small-scale miners in Oregon
    • News from the House and Senate
    • Governor shows support for mining
  • Millsite Opinion Overturned!

    Interior Secretary Gale Norton approved the reversal of controversial millsite restrictions that were put in place by the Clinton administration.
  • Continental Drift

    As soon as reasonably accurate maps were made, 200 years ago, one could not help but note the parallelism of some coastlines with those on other continents. The coastlines of Africa and South America, in particular, are strikingly similar. The first scientist to write on the subject was an Austrian, Edward Suess, who put India, Africa, and South America into a supercontinent he named “Gondwanaland.” But, it was not until Alfred Wegener, a German, came out with his “Theory of Continental Drift” in 1912, that scientists took note.
  • Eight Mines Earn Prestigious Safety Awards

    Eight US coal, metal and nonmetal mines that achieved a perfect safety record in 2002—a combined 1.9 million employee hours without any time lost to serious injury or a fatality—were honored with prestigious “Sentinels of Safety Awards” presented by Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health David Lauriski
  • A Guide to Overlooked Gold Deposits—Part III

    Most of the old large gold dredging operations used a trommel. The trommel consisted of a long metal cylinder made of heavy punch plate in which the small gravel, black sands, and gold would fall though holes and end up in banks of sluices.
  • Company Notes

    • Barrick Gold Corp.
    • Montana Resources
    • Placer Dome
    • Newmont Mining
    • Norilsk Nickel
    • AngloGold Ltd.
    • Ashanti Goldfields Co. Ltd.
    • Randgold Resources
    • Ivanhoe Mines Ltd.
  • The Kennedy Gold Mine—An Impressive Piece of History

    In the late 1850s, a prospector named Andrew Kennedy discovered gold in an outcropping of quartz not far from the present-day town of Jackson in California’s Amador County. His productive claim soon developed into the...
  • Buckhorn Mountain Project May Be Revived

    The long-delayed Buckhorn Mountain gold mine project has been purchased by one of North America’s largest gold producers. Kinross Gold Corp. plans to begin mining there within two years.
  • Watermelon Gold

    Awhile back, I was doing some prospecting in a remote mountain region, located in the rugged, well-timbered valleys of north-central British Columbia, an area known for its coarse gold.
  • Picks & Pans: An Arizona Miner

    Sometimes it takes a hard head to go beneath a hardhat. Digging for gold isn’t the easiest way to make a living, yet it’s an honorable profession, dealing a lot with nature.
  • Gold Hill, Utah

    The Gold Hill (Clifton) mining district is located 162 miles, by road, west of Salt Lake City. All but the last 12 miles of road is paved. The settlement of Gold Hill (pop. 10) lies at an elevation of 5,321 feet in desert mountains, the highest of which, Dutch Mountain, is 7,800 feet above sea level. Ponderosa pine grows at the highest elevations, with a zone of pinyons and junipers below that.
  • Looking Back

    Excerpts from California Mining Journal, our original title, published 50 years ago this month.
  • Frozen Prospects

    There is one rule of thumb when prospecting for gold in Alaska: You’ll find your best pay in southern-sloped exposed ground. This is not to say there’s no gold on northern exposed gulches where the sun has trouble reaching it and limited melting occurs. It’s harder, and more time consuming, to look for easy prospects in northern exposures.
  • Platinum in Nevada

    Platinum group metals (PGMs) have been noted at a few localities in Nevada, especially in Clark County. Unfortunately, some of these occurrences have been associated, in the past, with fraudulent schemes. The amount of PGMs found so far has not been enough for commercially important mining operations, but the mere fact that PGMs are present is worthy of note.
  • USFS Criticized for Renting Chopper in Nevada Dispute

    The Forest Service is being criticized for spending $15,000 to rent a helicopter to empty sewage from a remote outhouse in northeast Nevada, work a citizens group had volunteered to do for free by using a closed forest road that the group wants reopened.
  • Melman on Gold & Silver

    While there may have been events of the past month that were more important, nothing captured the imagination of the nation and much of the world like the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger as California’s new governor-elect. After weeks of on again, off again judicial rulings and a campaign of astonishing muckraking and innuendo-laden accusations, he did indeed enjoy a resounding victory.
  • New Guinea Denies Existence of Gold Stash

    Wild rumors sweeping this near bankrupt Pacific nation of a multibillion dollar stash of World War II gold bullion are wrong, the government said.
  • Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices

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