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Mineral Prospecting Stuff
Information on prospecting, rock hounding, rock collections and searching for gold and other stuff.
A trove of gold and silver artifacts worth an estimated $1.6 million were discovered in Staffordshire, England, by a hobbyist with a store-bought metal detector, according to an announcement made Thursday. In 2003, Emily Yoffe chronicled her own dalliance with "the world's worst hobby" and explained why she retired her detector before finding her own Staffordshire Hoard.[more ...]
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A sheaf of Colorado agencies are in agreement with a plan to spend federal stimulus funds on Highway 119 that would build a wildlife bridge over the highway to keep bighorn sheep out of traffic, end congestion on the road to casinos in Black Hawk, build a mine-tailings treatment plant to restore life to long-dead North Clear Creek water, and improve cellphone coverage, but it would also mean the end of a gold-panning business, and the owner of...
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From headwatersnews.org
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LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwire - November 9, 2009) - Placer Gold Corp. (PINKSHEETS: PGCR), the
"Company," is progressing its gold mine financing proposals for the
construction and operation of a number of placer gold mines with annual
planned production of up to 500,000 ounces per year.
The company's JV partners previously prepared and circulated
off-balance-sheet offerings to institutional investors for as much as $500
million in gold mine...
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From marketwire.com
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LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwire - October 21, 2009) - Placer Gold Corp. (PINKSHEETS: PGCR), the
"Company," is securing new renewable energy business opportunities.
PGCR is a 10% equity partner in a Joint Venture which recently lodged a
high-level proposal with the New York State Government to develop a
mega-scale wind project in the Great Lakes region.
Governments are calling for a switch to renewable energy and electric cars
and this is one of...
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- Placer Gold Corp. Clean Energy Projects Acquisition (marketwire.com)
SPOKANE, WA--(Marketwire - October 8, 2009) - Goldrich Mining Company (OTCBB: GRMC) (the
"Company") reports the successful completion of its 2009 alluvial gold
mining test on Little Squaw Creek at its Chandalar property, located 200
miles north of Fairbanks, Alaska. The brief pilot program involved a
full-scale mining test that produced 593.5 ounces of placer gold. The test
mining yielded valuable mining and engineering data that will enable...
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From marketwire.com
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Panning for Sh*t
El Dorado. Remember those old prospectors, panning for gold? That’s me. A Latter-Day sinner, saint and prospector, rolled into one. Panning for Poop. El Doo-rado. “So what has been going on for you in the last few months?” my patient, patient, frequently rescheduled therapist asked me yesterday. “Let’s see--- *Adam and I rented Dante’s Cottage from the Eighth-Ring of Hell in Carmel the first twelve days of...
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From open.salon.com
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Sigh. This will be enough to keep another few generations of innumerate obsessives doing the metal detecting thing even though the odds are orders of magnitude worse than even winning the lottery.
At least it's a fairly harmless hobby other than the wasted time. oldtaku
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From consumerist.com
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