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•The Bawl Mill

•Our Readers Say

Kay Condie—Independence, California

•Gold & Fish in Washington

by Greg Christensen—Fat Chance Mining

The prospecting community got behind a strategy proposed by Ivan Urnovitz of the Northwest Mining Association to fix the problems created by the Gold & Fish rule...

•Legislative and Regulatory Update

Submit your comments now regarding BLM's plan to increase fees.

Jumping frog wins federal habitat protection.

NMA challenges "midnight" water regulation.

•Original Sixteen to One Goes to CourtChallenges MSHA Citations

by Michael M. Miller, Pres.—Orignial Sixteen to One

Is it the collection of revenue, as some have suggested? Is it the control over natural resources? Are others using MSHA for some other obscure way of getting environmental results?

•The Great Gold Rush of Nome, Alaska  

by Ron Wendt

Every man in Nome, be he physician, carpenter, lawyer or barkeeper, dropped his usual vocation and went to work with a shovel and a rocker.

Miner's Calendar

•Picks & Pans: Red Mountain Planted Nugget Hunt (or "How To" Hunt a Square)

by Bob Abendschein

While there are many ways to conduct a planned nugget hunt, this article describes one way that several mining associations can get together and sponsor such an event.

Silver at Calico, California

by Edgar B. Heylmun, PhD

There are additional possibilities for finding silver, especially in the form of low-grade disseminated deposits.

•The South Pass Gold Placers, Western Wyoming

by W. Dan Hausel

In the 1980's, I spent 5 summers living in a tent in order to map the 450 mi² South Pass granite-greenstone belt and many of its historic mines. While mapping, I was quite impressed by the general lack of development of lode gold deposits... I was equally amazed at the general lack of prospecting for gold placers.

•Discovery of the Silver Bullets

by Robert P. Ezzo

On a trip to Florence to get provisions and another pack mule, Gip wrote a letter to his brothers Eme and Bill in California. He told his brothers he rediscovered the silver used by the Apaches to make their bullets and he wanted them to return to Arizona as quickly as they could.

•Tonopah Historic Mining Park

by Mark Mallicoat

With every step we thought about the hundreds of miles of tunnels beneath us...

•Melman on Gold & Silver

by Leonard Melman

One of the most serious implications of stagflation is that it puts the Federal Reserve Board in a particular bind. While it desires to stimulate a slackening economy, it cannot be overly aggressive in reducing interest rates and increasing liquidity through the system if inflationary pressures are already in place.

•Mining Stock Quotes

•Mineral & Metal Prices

•Gold in Foreign Currencies

•Mine Forced to Pay for Grizzly Habitat

...Sterling must fund two new education and enforcement positions within the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks to help prevent human-caused grizzly kills.

•Mine Market—Classified Ads (10 pages)