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Picks & Pans: Exploring Wyoming's High Desert
July 2002 by David C. Freitag
In an untamed and lonely part of Wyoming’s high desert sits a deposit of gold so large, and so vast, that even today its volume remains a mystery. With an aerial extent of over 10 square miles and a depth of nearly 7,000 feet...
PGMs in California
The occurrence of platinum-group metals (PGMs) is rather widespread in California in placer deposits, but they are not of commercial interest as things now stand.
Ask The Experts: What indicator rocks should I be looking for in northern Nevada?
Q: Can you tell us what the indicator rocks are? I’ve looked at the nearby digs and pushes that were made for gold and it looks like we’re digging on some similar material...
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Alternative Gold Leaching Methods
The ideal leaching chemical would leave behind what we don't want or need in the ore and take only the valuable metals.
The Bawl Mill
- Brother, can you spare a cell phone?
- Houston, we have a drug problem...
Gemstones in Wyoming—Part I
Gemstones are timeless treasures of beauty. The extraordinary and satiated colors of many gemstones enhance their aesthetic beauty. Gems have been sought for personal adornment since the beginning of time and such minerals...
The Bawl Mill
• Caught on camera...
• Taxpayers can’t go “cold turkey”
• Hurricane FEMA wipes out 1,800 homes
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• Gold & The Dollar
• Sons of Gwalia & Herbert Hoover
• Looking Back
• Prospecting on the Yukon River
• Placer Gold in Arizona
• The Fire Assay of Fly Eyes
• Bill Could Create New Silver Market
• 2002 Inductees to the National Mining Hall of Fame
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• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Mystery of Olmec Jade Solved
