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•The Bawl Mill

Proposed law really stinks

That's no bull...

Wanted: New home, preferably in another state  

•Our Readers Say

Jerry R. Hattox (story by 4th grader Dallas Hattox)

•Gold Shines Brightly at Start of New Year

Gold prices started the new year more than $66 higher than they were as 2002 dawned.

•Common Sense Returns to House Resources Committee

California Republican Richard Pombo came out on top when the vote was taken to determine who would be the next chairman of the House Resources Committee. Pombo is a former rancher and a strong advocate of property rights. He's tried several times to revise the Endangered Species Act to require sound science, peer review, and just compensation to landowners, among other things.

•Legislative and Regulatory Update

Ohio Supreme Court affirms state takings law

Comments needed on Army Corps regulatory authority

RS 2477 and FLPMA

•High Placers in Colorado

by Edgar B. Heylmun, PhD

...given the sporadic nature of some of the deposits, virgin placer gold pockets may remain undiscovered.

•Miner's Calendar

•New Jersey's Traprock Prehnite

by Martin A. Becker and Daniel F. Brady, Dept. of Physics, The College of New Jersey

Termed bottle-rock by local quarry owners and collectors, the attraction of this mineral and its associated zeolites has recruited countless individuals in our metropolitan area into the world mineral collecting.

•Public Lands for the People--An Excellent Resource for Prospectors

by Scott Harn, Editor

Public Lands for the People (PLP) is a non-profit (501-c3) organization dedicated to the restoration and protection of the public's right to access and use public lands and private property.

•Miner's Calendar

•Company Notes

Canyon Resources Corp.

Fronteer Development Group

Lateegra Resources Corp. and Wolfden Resources

Wheaton River Minerals

Goldcorp Inc.

•Picks & Pans: Gold Prospecting on the East Fork River, Alaska (Part II)

by Ron Wendt

We panned down to our fines and, much to our surprise, recovered some of the biggest pieces of gold out of this hole.

•The Tale of Two Scanners 

by Bob Schlosser

At eleven o'clock one night, Marcus Montoya, driving a Euclid truck loaded with twenty-two tons of muck, hit the probe tower hard enough to put the tower out of commission. The mishap bent one of the major supports and almost knocked the probeman, working on top of the tower, to the ground.

•Goldfield, Nevada 

by Edgar B. Heylmun, PhD

It remains a mystery as to why the rich gold deposits at Goldfield were not found for 30 years after silver had been found in the nearby Lida district.

•Mono Mills--Bodie's Little-Known Ghost Town Suburb

by Frank Lorey III

The preserved ghost town of Bodie, now a California State Park, was large enough in its boom years to spawn another town whose history was entirely dependent upon the rise and fall of mining in Bodie itself.

•US Mining Achieves Historic Safety Record

•Barrick Gold, J.P. Morgan Chase Accused of Manipulating Gold Market 

The lawsuit was filed by Blanchard and Co. of New Orleans on behalf of its clients who bought gold bullion.

•Looking Back -- Excerpt from 50 years ago in CMJ

•Melman on Gold & Silver

by Leonard Melman

Two strongly related ongoing situations are likely to have a powerful impact on the world's financial markets during the coming year. They are the rapid development of the free enterprise economy in China combined with the staggering levels of debt now in existence throughout the industrialized world.

•Mineral & Metal Prices

•Mining Stock Quotes

•Gold in Foreign Currencies

•Mine Market—Classified Ads (8 pages)

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