Table of Contents

•The Bawl Mill

We paid who?

Mess with Mother Nature and go to jail—mess with mother and???

Visitar Avon—Avon calling

•California Mining Journal Photo Contest Winners

•Our Readers Say:

Evaldo Kothny, Walnut Creek, California

Ed "Ski" Szynkowski, Hayfork, California

•Alaska and Yukon Territory Sign Minerals Agreement

•Geology Governing Board Adopts Mining Permit Fee

•Western States Mines Office May Be Closed

•Dredgers Continue Battle for Fair Hearing

by Lynn Gunn

•AMC Hails ESA Reform Bill

•Osmium 187 Being Promoted By Eastern Bloc Operators

•The Mineral Policy Center...but what's in a name?

by Paul S. Strobel

•Recent Gold & Silver Events

Bureau of Mines

Alta Gold

MinVen Gold

FMC Gold

Royal Mountain King Mine 

USMX

Hecla Mining 

Homestake Mining

Kennecott 

Newmont Mining

Tri-Valley

International Platinum

Amax Gold

American Independence Mines

Consolidated Nevada Goldfields

Sierra Nevada Gold

Equinox Resources

Better Resources 

Royal Oak Mines

Geddes Resources

Consolidated Ramrod Gold

Inter-Rock Gold

Queenstake Mine

Cyprus Minerals

Placer Dome

Miramar Mining

El Dorado

Cominco Resources

Labyrinth Resource

Altai Resources

Battle Mountain Gold

Exall Resources

•Asteroids and Catastrophes

by Edgar B. Heylmun, PhD

•Geological Survey to Examine Diamond Potential

•Company Looking for Diamonds in S.W. Arkansas

•Gates Reopen to Rock Hound Heaven

•Mining & The Law: Compliance with State Location Requirements

by Chuck Weller

•The Bonner Gold Mine

by Edgar B. Heylmun, PhD

•Russians to Play Major Role at Mining Meeting

•Stirling Buys Into Russian Exploration Co.

•TOMORROW: Economic Consequences

by Stephen D. Alfers

•New Video Available from American Mining Congress 

•First Major New Gold Mining Investment in Revitalized Peru 

•Mining Industry Purchases Top $2.5 Billion 

•Mayors Say Reform Bill Could Bust Mining Towns 

•NAFTA Promises Mineral Industry Gain 

•Mining School to Boost Recruitment Efforts 

•Bureau of Mines Conduct Alternative Fuel Test 

•Mining Collection to be Auctioned 

•Kinross Receives permit for Underground Copper Mine 

•CMJ's Year in Review: 1993 Index 

•INDIA: Mining Opened to Foreign Companies 

by Har Govind

•Platinum-Group Metals in the Second Quarter 1993

•Japanese Demand for Platinum Projected to Rise

•China to Disclose Gold

•New Film Product Doesn't Require Silver

•Melman on Gold & Silver 

by Leonard Melman

•Mineral and Metal Prices

•Mining Stock Quotes

•Getting a Bang Out of Gold Recovery

by Walter C. Lashley

•Silver Found to Destroy Bacteria and Viruses

•Miner's Calendar

•Legislative Update 

•U.S. Attracts the Most 1993 Nonferrous Exploration Spending 

•Bumpers Bill Would Cost 17.8 Thousand Jobs, According to Study

by Michael K. Evans

•Mine Market—Classified Ads (10 pages)