Legislative and Regulatory Update

September 2016 by Scott Harn

Take it to Bedrock

November 2017

Picking the right spot to placer has to do with years of experience, and a little luck. The textbooks can tell you where it should be, but sometimes the rules just don’t seem to apply.

Ask The Experts - Is there a standard percentage given to land owners who hold the mineral rights?

October 2017

Tools of the Modern Prospector: The GPS

July 2008
GPS provides the prospector a precise way of knowing just where something (like a mine) is located. There are many thousands of lost mine stories—some real, and some made up. The use of a GPS could well have made the difference to accurately record their location.

The Lost Silver Triangle of the Sierra Madre—Part I

April 2008
The North American continent harbors a vast mountain fastness that few Anglo-Americans have seen—an awesome land cut by perpendicular canyons and towering peaks, a forbidding wilderness virtually unchanged...

Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices

March 2011

Companion Gold

June 2015
Easing around the bedrock ledges and rock hopping, Terry and I came out into the open and were looking at a nice run of bedrock.

Gold in Alaska

March 2010
The harsh Alaskan environment delayed serious prospecting and mining for decades and still continues to stymie exploration activity even though there are likely dozens of hidden major and world-class gold and base metal deposits.

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