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•The Bawl Mill

•A True Endangered Species

From the Editor

•Vertical Disintegration

Guest Editorial by Henry Lamb

•Legislative and Regulatory Update

3809 Regulations—Letter Drive

Environmental groups infiltrate National Park Service

Interior Secretary Gale Norton chastises environmentalists over Klamath Lawsuit

•USGS Reports Increase of Imported Minerals

•The San Juan Mountains, Colorado

by Edgar B. Heylmun, PhD

There are numerous volcanic calderas where radial and ring faults are filled with silver and gold-bearing quartz veins.

•A Silver Opportunity

by Dr. Ralph E. Pray

...there's a promising piece of public land open for location in Nevada's challenging Esmeralda County.

Miner's Calendar

•Gold in Virginia

by Edgar B. Heylmun, PhD

The linearity of the gold belt suggests strong control by a deep crustal shear zone, which is parallel to the Blue Ridge front.

•Picks & Pans: DEF Prospectors Rally Was A Huge Success

by Debra Ashworth and Jeff Chase

We had around 20 dredges in the South Umpqua River, with good reports coming in about the gold they were finding.

News from GATA

"Everything is fitting into place," Murphy says. " It appears that the SDR certificates are being used by the ESF to hide its gold transactions from the American public."

•Our Nugget Shooting Adventure

by Mas Kadonaga

We all found nuggets this day, and as we analyzed the location of our finds we could see a pattern developing.

•How PGMs Affect Assay Beads

by Charles L. Butler

The presence of any of the platinum group metals in the gold or silver beads, as little as 0.1%, changes their appearance quite remarkably.

•Fly Fishing the Mine Tailings/Headwaters of the Clark Fork, Montana

by Michele Murray

I looked over the edge. Torpedoes! Porpoises! Crazy large trout were swimming around in these pools! Mine-waste mutants! And sneaky, too—come right up to you from behind. I plunked a Royal Wulff above their shadows.

•Company Notes 

Royal Gold, Inc.

Placer Dome, Inc.

•ICMJ's 11 Annual Photo Contest (entry form)

•Melman on Gold & Silver

by Leonard Melman

•Mining Stock Quotes

•Mineral & Metal Prices

•Gold in Foreign Currencies

•Mine Market—Classified Ads (9 pages)