Picks & Pans: An Arizona Miner

November 2003 by Leland Weeks

Ask the Experts

April 2012
Q: Can a voltmeter be used to determine the type of metal/mineral present in soil?

Time for a New Approach: Detecting Float Gold

September 2013
The first pieces found were in a spot that most gold hunters would not even detect, right in the middle of a downslope meadow.

The Bawl Mill

December 2014

• A lack of intelligence

• The $40,000 bird

• A little too transparent, a little too late

Oil Seeps in Arizona

December 2003
Compared to California, Arizona has virtually no oil seeps. But, the great Permian Basin of West Texas has virtually none either. Arizona has something that neither California nor Texas have, and that is public lands that are open for leasing. The northern half of Arizona has more seeps and is thus of greater interest, but it would be foolish to disregard the southern half because giant oil and natural gas fields could underlie some of the broad desert valleys.

Ask the Experts

May 2014
Gold and silver in Pennsylvania

British Columbia to Streamline Filing of Mining Claims

November 2003
Tired of trudging through quagmires, over mountains and slipping into bloodsucker infested mud holes to stake your mining claim? Then perhaps you should consider British Columbia. BC is moving towards an Internet-based claim staking system that will allow you to stake your claims during football half-time festivities.

Melman on Gold & Silver

May 2014
I believe that the continual imposition of Leftist concepts on an already economically overburdened world is a recipe for some future economic catastrophe...

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