California – Spotlight Mining

Water On Wall Street

Featured Image: bummelhummel Water has officially joined Wall Street to be traded as a Futures commodity. Water availability is becoming increasingly less as climate change and human activities lead to severe droughts across the world. A recent flagship report by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) revealed that about 1.2 billion people globally experienced very high […]

Tales from the Covid Bunker: Day 13

Featured Image: Historic workings at the Vangold ‘Il Pinguico’ project in Mexico End of the world jukebox: Fred Rice, curator of the Canadian Miners Club, has stepped up to the plate and dialled in a cheerful number featuring Jimmy Fallon and a surprise guest on the NY subway. Good Afternoon to all friends around the […]

California, Golden to the Kore?

Between 1850 and 1957, California was one of the most famous gold producing regions in North America. The Grass Valley district alone pulled out some 17 million Oz (largely by manual labour) from its impressive Empire, Golden Centre and Columbia Gulch properties. Some of these sites are still poked at by rigs hoping to strike […]