Gold & Outdoor Festival

Delta Gold Diggers Gold & Outdoor Festival August 23-24th, 2014 Last weekend, The Diggings visited the Gold & Outdoor festival, hosted by the Delta Gold Diggers. Gold prospectors and their families descended on the Mother Lode Fairgrounds in Sonora, California to learn to pan for gold, compete to prove their skills with a metal detector,…

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Compare Facebook to Gold

Everybody’s doing it Now that the market capitalization behind the global gold mining industry has dipped to $150 billion, the new fun thing to do is compare it to Facebook’s $175 billion market cap. Yes, according to investors, the two are pretty much equal, which has funds like the OCM Gold Fund touting graphs demonstrating…

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Hearst and the Homestake Mine

While William Randolph Hearst is well known the world over as the great media magnate, a father of yellow journalism, and inspiration for Citizen Kane, seedlings of his pivotal role as a news baron can be traced back to his father, George Hearst, and the Homestake Mine. The Homestake Mine is located in Lead, South…

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