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Progressive Privy Program Proved Popular
November 1999 by Guest Writer
by Mella Rothwell HarmonNevada Department of Museums, Library and Arts
"This was Nevada"
Manslaughter Charges Dropped Against Sixteen to One Mine
Manslaughter charges against the Original Sixteen to One Mine, company president Mike Miller, and manager Jonathan Farrell, were dismissed by Judge Stanley Young Jr. in Downieville, California.
Hardrock Prospecting in El Dorado County, California
Three times we went back and finally found a clue. There was an old air shaft not far from the trail!
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Questions regarding processing black sands
From Hand Sluice to Dredge
Gold prospecting in Virginia: Like most prospecting greenhorns, I entered the gold prospecting hobby with a pan, a shovel and a hand sluice. It was January 2007, and I had just stumbled upon the hobby of gold prospecting while researching...
Melman on Gold & Silver
“Scandals, scandals, everywhere, and not an end in sight!” might be the tag line of a musical depicting the financial markets as they near the end of a particularly tumultuous year. First we had the massive accounting scandals associated with the Enron collapse. This was followed by the corporate scandals where inaccurate and misleading research of one sort or another made headlines. But none of those compare in possible scope to the mutual fund scandals...
Silver Strike in Happy Camp, California
For Maria McCracken, the quest for gold has been a life-long experience. Maria runs the New 49’ers Prospecting Club in Happy Camp, California, along with her husband Dave, and Gerry Westerkamp. But lately her focus has been on silver.
The Ferris-Haggarty Copper-Gold Mine, Grand Encampment District, Wyoming
At the close of the 19th Century, optimism was high that Wyoming would become an important source for copper much like the neighbor states of Colorado, Utah, and Montana. This dream was short-lived...
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The Bawl Mill
• USPS Delays ICMJ Delivery at Oakland, CA Processing Center
• Another Gold Heist Reported at Nome
• No Need to Rewrite Mining Regs, NAS Study Confirms
• BLM Filing Requirements for Small Miners' Waiver
• Asarco Accepts Phelps Dodge Buyout
• Once Lonely, Mojave Desert Phone Now World's Companion
• Judge Blocks Road Protest
• Company to Sue Over Stymied Gold Mine
• No Mining / Logging on 40 Million Acres
• Catastrophism vs. Uniformitarianism
• 1st Annual Placer County Open Gold Panning Championships—1999
• Picks & Pans: The Ten-Pennyweight Nugget
• Mining in Sonora, Mexico
• Pullin' the Pin
• Land of Golden Dreams—California in the Gold Rush Decade
• Cerro Colorado Silver, Arizona
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
• Surging Gold Prices Burn a Few Unlucky Mining Firms
• Looking Back
