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Melman on Gold & Silver
May 2005 by Leonard Melman
Last month was one of the most unusual in recent memory. For virtually an entire month, the news media was focused almost entirely with death and dying.Ask The Experts - Is LR2000 working correctly?
Melman on Gold & Silver
To paraphrase Shakespeare, “To war, or not to war, that is the question.” That was the question that dominated national and international headlines over the past month, at least those headlines that were not otherwise occupied by detailing information about one market collapse after another around the world. It is hard to know which was the more important story.
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Government Says New Mine Will Benefit Bears
Grizzly bears stand to benefit if a copper and silver mine is developed beneath Montana’s Cabinet Mountains Wilderness, the US Fish and Wildlife Service said in a rewritten opinion.
Picks & Pans: Gold Mining on Joie Osgood Ranch
Butte County, California—On January 29, 1978, Peter and I received permission from Joie Osgood to pan and look for gold on her property. The 3800 acre property was located about four miles northeast of Honcut, Butte County, California.
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Oregon proposed withdrawal
• Vote
Gold Prospecting for Better or Worse: Throwing Away Thousand-Dollar Hot Rocks
All of this made me have to conclude that those dummies just didn’t know what they were doing. It was a couple of years later before the solution for this puzzle became clear to me.
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