Word: golds
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...marginal deposits. One place where the method will be used is Angels Camp, Calif., about 120 miles east of San Francisco. Angels Camp provided Mark Twain with notebooks full of prospecting lore for his short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. Today workers for the Carson Hill gold-mining company are blasting and carving out a 1,100-acre open-pit site. When it begins full operation in October, the Carson Hill venture will be the first commercial gold mine to open in the Angels Camp area since 1950. The company's general manager, W.B. Williams, expects...
Other miners continue to see a bonanza in more traditional methods. About eleven miles southeast of the Carson Hill site, Canadian-backed Sonora Mining has invested $85 million to build the largest conventional gold-processing mill in North America, due to open early next year. Sonora hopes to excavate 2 million oz. of gold from the hills around Jamestown (pop. 950), a sleepy settlement born during the 1849 gold rush...
...rock purists, Beehive (which takes its name from the puffed-up hairdos of the early '60s) may be too prefab and refried. The songs are speeded up, the styles are hyped up, and the performances are often camped up. Critics will also note the absence of glamour gold from Phil Spector's girl groups; where is Uptown, He's a Rebel, Be My Baby, Not Too Young to Get Married or the ineffable Da Doo Ron Ron? But Gallagher was not looking to create a Madame Tussaud's of femme pop; he wanted to take an affectionate look...
...test of wills shaping up between President Reagan and the U.S. Congress. Last week Reagan ignored congressional demands for tough new economic sanctions against South Africa and announced the extension of the limited measures that he imposed by Executive Order last September. Among them were bans on imports of gold Krugerrands, new loans to the government and sales of computers for use by security agencies...
...Detroit makes cars Italian- style. -- A new American gold rush...