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•The Bawl Mill

Agriculture employees caught grazing on taxpayer funds

A long wait at the bus stop

Taxpayers foot the bill

Sticky business

•House Resources Committee Addresses Environmental Scare-Tactics

by House Resources Committee & Chairman Richard Pombo

More truth: Mining in the United States has impacted less than three-tenths of one-percent of the surface.

•Legislative and Regulatory Update

Rock Creek mine approved again: environmentalists file another law suit

Great Basin Mine Watch loses appeal

Roadless Rule declared illegal again by Federal Court

Off-highway vehicle restrictions in North and South Dakota and Montana

Comments needed for new off-road emission and fuel standards

California administration moves to block mining: Governor faces recall

A few pending bills...

•Precious Metals in the Patagonia Mountains

by Edgar B. Heylmun, PhD

Some of the more remote campsites may still have almost virgin sniping grounds.

•Over the Divide: Elaine Schrader

•Miner's Calendar

•Idaho-Maryland Mine--History Restarted

by Don Robinson

Over a ten-year period they plan to remove 1,965,000 tons of ore, grading at an average of 0.53 ounces per ton.

•Montana Candidate Sees Natural Resources as Path to Recovery

Keating said gold is making a comeback. He expects gold to hit $400 an ounce or more because of the weakening of the dollar against other currencies.

•Judge Rules Against Oregon Miners--Battles Continues

by Tom Kitchar

•Lake County "Diamonds" -- Renewed Value for an Old Favorite

by Mary E. Garatti

The best places to try to find some of the crystals for personal use or for possible sale are along county road rights-of-way...

•Moving the World's Largest Machine--The Bucyrus 2570W Walking Dragline

by Paul McAuley

The entire machine weighs 12 million pounds and is approximately 18,000 cubic meters in size.

•Mother Lode Gold, California

by Edgar B. Heylmun, PhD

These are belts of soft, finely laminated slate, somewhat talcos, seamed with innumerable veinlets and stringers of quartz and containing considerable coarse gold.

•News from the Pacific Legal Foundation

PLF has been hard at work improving our Endangers Species Act Reform Project (ESARP), which is why you haven't heard from us over the past few months.

•Melman on Gold & Silver

by Leonard Melman

As it relates to the world of precious metals, a collapse of the bond market with resultant higher interest rates would appear to add uncertainty and risk to the overall economic equation--and that should be bullish for the metals in the long run.

•Maine to Create Mineral Park

...the plan calls for purchasing a 100-acre tract of land that includes the famous Dunton tourmaline mine and six neighboring quarries.

•Mineral & Metal Prices

•Mining Stock Quotes

•Gold in Foreign Currencies

•Mine Market—Classified Ads (9 pages)

New and used equipment, services, claims for sale, etc.