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•The Bawl Mill •Our Readers Say Frank Lorey III — California Bill Rankin — Montana •Greens Force Strategic Mine Out Of Business by Don Fife, National Association of Mining Districts The world's largest lanthanide mine in the Mojave Desert between Barstow, California, and Las Vegas, Nevada, was regulated out of business by twenty-nine local, state, and federal agencies, and by elected and appointed government officials. •Legislative and Regulatory Update Pacific Legal Foundation files suit to de-list Klamath salmon Draft EIS on Suction Dredging in the Siskiyou National Forest More Siskiyou National Forest news District Court rules in favor of Nicolet Minerals State Supreme Court backs mining company •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. ... Maria's son, Derek Parra, took the silver medal in the 5,000 meter speed skating event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. (Update: Derek later won a Gold Medal and broke the World Record in the 1,500 meter after this issue was printed —Congratulations Derek!) •Gold in New Hampshire by Edgar B. Heylmun, PhD There are a number of placer gold streams in New Hampshire, and a good goldpanner could probably find colors in most streamcourses in the state. •Fable 1933 Gold Coin Up For Sale A 1933 Double Eagle gold coin that never went into production—but triggered decades of intrigue—is being sold by the federal government at auction this summer. •Miners Calendar •The Douglas Creek Placer District, Medicine Bow Mountains, Southeastern Wyoming by W. Dan Hausel Modern day prospectors working in the Douglas Creek district often find coarse gold, some amalgamated gold, platinum, and palladium. •Picks & Pans: The California State Nugget by John Anderson I started my first hole a short distance up river from the hole I made last summer that produced two ounces of gold. •Aerial Photos by Edgar B. Heylmun, PhD Vertical aerial photographs, a form of remote sensing, are invaluable in the search for mineral deposits, and have been used for 60 years for that purpose. •Mojave Desert Placer Mining by Frank Lorey III Several locations in the Mojave Desert region of California have yielded placer gold, apparently scattered from nearby lode deposits that have long-since eroded from existence. •Mining Camp Adventures—The Collinsville-Twin Creek Goldfields by Ron Wendt Joe and I had a lazy habit of finding old wooden sluice boxes which were lying around Twin Creek. We would take out our knives and dig out the cracks of the wooden sluices, catching paydirt that sifted below into our gold pans. •Monetary Freedom and Accountability Act ...legislation designed to curb the ability of the president and the treasury secretary to manipulate gold prices. •Company Notes NovaGold Resources Inc. Canyon Resources Corp. TVX Gold Inc. Silver Standard Resources Inc. •North Korea Seeks Outside Help to Modernize Mining •Aussie Gold—A Look at Tasmania by A.R. Cameron While mineral discoveries have not been on the scale of some mainland states, Tasmania has produced its fair share of gold and other important ores. •Looking Back •Melman on Gold & Silver by Leonard Melman •Mining Stock Quotes •Mineral & Metal Prices •Newsstands •Mine Market—Classified Ads (9 pages) |
