The New California Gold Rush
The gold rush is back on in California. On my way back from Lake Tahoe recently, I saw that every bend of the American River was dotted with hopeful amateur miners, looking to make a windfall fortune.Weekend hobbyists were there panning away from the banks, while the hardcore pros stood in hip waders balancing portable pumps on truck inner tubes, pouring sand into sluice boxes. A sharp-eyed veteran can take in $2,000 worth of gold dust a day. The new 2011’ers were driven by a record price of gold at $1,550 and the attendant headlines, but also by unemployment, and recent heavy rains last winter that flushed huge new quantities of the yellow metal out of the High Sierras.
They were no doubt inspired by the chance discovery of an 8.7 ounce nugget in May near Bakersfield, worth an impressive $10,000. Local folklore says that the Sierra’s have given up only 20% of their gold, and the remaining 80% is still up there awaiting discovery. Out of work construction workers are taking their heavy equipment up to the mountains and using it to reopen mines that have been abandoned since the 19th century.
The US Bureau of Land Management says that mining permits in the Golden State this year have shot up from 15,606 to 23,974. Unfortunately, the big money here is being made by the sellers of supplies and services to the new miners, much as Levi Strauss and Wells Fargo did in the original 1849 gold rush. Of course, they could much more easily buy the Spider Gold Trust Shares ETF (GLD), but it wouldn’t be as much fun. The gold rush is back on in California. On my way back from Lake Tahoe recently, I saw that every bend of the American River was dotted with hopeful amateur miners, looking to make a windfall fortune.
Weekend hobbyists were there panning away from the banks, while the hardcore pros stood in hip waders balancing portable pumps on truck inner tubes, pouring sand into sluice boxes. A sharp-eyed veteran can take in $2,000 worth of gold dust a day. The new 2011’ers were driven by a record price of gold at $1,550 and the attendant headlines, but also by unemployment, and recent heavy rains last winter that flushed huge new quantities of the yellow metal out of the High Sierras.
They were no doubt inspired by the chance discovery of an 8.7 ounce nugget in May near Bakersfield, worth an impressive $10,000.
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Out of work construction workers are taking their heavy equipment up to the mountains and using it to reopen mines that have been abandoned since the 19th century. The US Bureau of Land Management says that mining permits in the Golden State this year
The Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology estimates that geothermal production revenues could total $1 billion a year in Nevada in the next couple of decades, and geothermal resources could meet 35 percent or more of the state's needs for electricity.
“It's basically as hot as any of the ore,” said Connolly, who worked for the US Bureau of Mines before being hired by the tribe. “Now we're trying to figure out what to do with it. The company suggested putting it on the ground.
The most popular is the flume trail, used to transport timber to the mines in Virginia City, Nev., in the 1850s and 1860s. "Really, when you look at Tahoe (and) at the natural environment," she said, "it is really conducive to college students who are
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Firefighters from across the U.S., including California, are battling wildfires in Arizona and Texas -- including the "second largest wildfire in Arizona history."
"Arizona fires: Wallow Fire continues to grow" (The Arizona Republic, 6/8/11)
"The fire, growing by the hour, leapt farther north Tuesday and has now consumed about 389,000 acres, with at least 11 structures burned and 588 more threatened by the flames ...
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Quarterly of the Colorado School of Mines. April. 1922. University of California . Department of Geological Sciences, Vol. 13 — No. li — Geology of the ...Science
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AA Krogdahl, mining engineer of US Bureau of Mines, for the past two years engaged in giving training In mine rescue and first-aid work, In California ...Guide One Directory
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