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•The Bawl Mill

Our tax dollars at work, or not...

Crafty robbers make another withdrawal

Nebraska Governor earns our praise for saving taxpayer money

State cries "wolf"

Let's end on an up note

•Legislative and Regulatory Update

Changes to influential House committees

Supreme Court may review ESA

Suit filed to block Kensington

Exploration incentive proposed in Wyoming

Montana bill LC1058

•$100 Million Lost on Faulty ESA Listing

by John Heilprin

Builders, landowners and local governments have spent as much as $100 million by some estimates protecting the mouse...

•Geologists Locate Giant Gemstones

Staff

If properly sampled, some specimens weighing over 100,000 carats will undoubtedly be recovered.

•Miner Wins Important Victory Against Forest Service

Editor

The government argued that a Plan of Operation is a specific type of permit and included by implication...

•Philippines Asks Foreigners to Invest in Mining

...the government has been transformed from a "fierce regulator" of the mining industry to a partner of mining companies.

•The Art of Finding Coarse Gold—Part IV Recovery of Coarse Gold From Alluvial Placers

by Chris Ralph

...at times coarse gold can hang up on false bedrock that resists the force of the river when it is at flood stage.

•Miner's Calendar

•Healthy Interest at Recent Vancouver Conferences

by Leonard Melman

...supplies of base and precious metals have diminished in recent years and above-ground inventories are in increasingly short supply.

•Idaho Silver Miners Come to Aid of Tsunami Victims

by Paul Boring

...the benefits of silver in healing and medicine will increase...

•Picks & Pans: In Search of a Vein—Looking for Hardrock in the Talkeetna Mountains

by Ron Wendt

My feet firmly hit their target as I felt chunks of ore samples pierce through the overloaded pack on my back.

•Researchers Trace History of Hope Diamond

by Randolph E. Schmid

...the researchers "virtually placed the Hope back inside the French Blue"...

•The Rip-Roaring Flood That Washed Out Mazuma, Nevada

by Jim Straight

...the first "gold strike" was reported during the 1860s in Stonehouse Canyon within the Farrell mining district.

•Looking Back  50 years ago this month

•The Resolution Copper Mine, Arizona

by Edgar B. Heylmun, PhD

The Resolution ore body contains rich deposits of pyrite, chalcopyrite, bornite, and chalcocite.

•Company Notes

Pacific Gold, Barrick Gold, Wheaton River Minerals, Goldcorp, Kinross Gold, Canadian Arrow Mines

•China Ups Investment in Foreign Minerals

Many investments have been focused on acquiring scarce energy and mineral resources...

•Melman on Gold & Silver

by Leonard Melman

...one concept worth investigating is whether we are about to see rounds of currency devaluations...

•Mining Stock Quotes

•Mineral & Metal Prices

•Gold in Foreign Currencies

•Mine Market—Classified Ads (9 pages)

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