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•The Bawl Mill

Environmental solution becomes the problem

How much money are you forfeiting?

The unbearable snowman

•Legislative and Regulatory Update

Court says ESA listing bogus

Comments needed for Idaho project

Crown Resources finally receives patents

•Shortage of Mining Engineers Projected

by John K. Wiley

Despite starting salaries averaging about $50,000 a year, mining schools are having trouble attracting students to traditional mine engineering courses...

•Ex-MarketWatch Mining Promoter Settle Charges

Editor

...fine amounts to a $125,000 civil penalty and $416,000 representing the return of wrongly earned profits, plus interest...

•Carbonatites

by Edgar B. Heylmun, PhD

The thought of calcite being molten lava is difficult to accept, but..

•Sage Grouse Listing Denied

Staff

"The sad news is that those who pushed this listing petition forced the wasteful spending of millions of taxpayers' dollars...

•The Art of Finding Coarse Gold—Part III Field Techniques for Finding and Recovering Coarse Gold From Residual Placers

by Chris Ralph

The broken zone of a fault can provide a conduit for geothermal solutions coming upward to the surface.

•Miner's Calendar

•Tongass Approves Kensington Mine Plan

The Forest Service and the state of Alaska are solidly behind the project...

•PLP Interim Rule Raffle

Editor

Public Lands for the People is raising funds for their lawsuit against the Forest Service Interim Rule.

•California Miners Locate Rich Pocket of Specimen Gold

Staff

Over fifty pieces of dendritic gold...were recently discovered...

•The Lucky Shot Mine

by Ron Wendt

...the old timers got the most accessible stuff up front where the wagon trails were made and there are still major lodes scattered through these sharp, jagged peaks.

•BC Premier Heralds "Golden Decade" in Forestry and Mining

British Columbia is poised for a "golden decade" in forestry and mining, Premier Gordon Campbell says.

•Drywashing for Eluvial Gold in the Desert—Using a Portable Drywasher and Hand Tools

by Jim Straight

...for those that "read the ground," and snipe for areas of favorable placer concentration, drywashing will continue to be both an inexpensive and popular prospecting and mining method.

•Claim Filings Up in the Northwest

...cold and snow have driven most miners away from the mountains of Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington, except for the hard-core, like 56-year-old Tommy Parte, who is in the process of buying the historic Buffalo Mine near Granite.

•Canadian Officials Foresee Little Impact From Mine

Alaska and US officials say they will conduct a detailed review of the Canadian findings...

•Coeur d'Alene Mines Sees Future in Bolivia

The San Bartolome Mine is expected to open in 2006.

•The Golden Highway—Nevada County

by Frank Lorey III

Despite having the earliest hydraulic mining, starting in 1852 at American Hill just outside town, no records exist for the production of the American Hill, Buckeye Hill, and the Hirschman hydraulic mines.

•Melman on Gold & Silver

by Leonard Melman

...we believe that immense pressures regarding inflation, interest rates and additional US Dollar weakness are building steadily...

•Mining Stock Quotes

•Mineral & Metal Prices

•Gold in Foreign Currencies

•Looking Back  50 years ago this month

•Mine Market—Classified Ads (9 pages)

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