In mineral exploration, the riskiest starting point is often a blank map. Greenfield discoveries are expensive, slow, and statistically unforgiving. Even in strong commodity cycles, most early-stage ...
After the discovery of a 17-pound nugget in Little Meadow Creek, North Carolina, the state became a major hotbed of gold mining as a part of the first American gold rush in 1799. Early discoveries ...
Before Oregon was known for timber, it was known for gold. That’s the underlying message of the new book “Oregon Gold: A History of Mining from the Civil War into the Progressive Era.” Its author, ...