WORLD PLACER JOURNAL - Volume 1

Volume 1 : September 2000 Bulk-testing alluvials with a mobile KNELSON, the failure of Java Gold Corporation in attempting large-scale placer mining, the collapse of Java Gold, environmental problems of placer gold mining, review of gold dredges in Central Asia, platinum placers and paleoplacers in the Gobi, problems with a mercury placer, details of a tantalite-tin placer...
PLACER BULK-TEST WITH A MOBILE KNELSON		Gary Beaudoin Gold Test on the Toson Terrace, Zaamar Goldfield of Mongolia. World Placer Journal 2000, volume 1, pages 1-9.
WHY DID THIS PLACER MINE FAIL?		Robin Grayson The failure of Java Gold Corporation at placer gold mining in Mongolia. World Placer Journal 2000, volume 1, pages 10-30.
WHY DID THIS CANADIAN COMPANY COLLAPSE?		Robin Grayson The Rise and Fall of Java Gold Corporation (JVAG) in Mongolia. World Placer Journal 2000, volume 1, pages 31-89.
SIBERIAN DREDGES WIN GOLD IN THE STEPPES		Gerrit Bazuin, Robin Grayson, Frank Mc.Bride & Iain Barclay Review of Gold Dredges in Mongolia, and mitigation of environmental impacts. World Placer Journal 2000, volume 1, pages 90-106.
GOLD RUSH DAMAGES ENVIRONMENT !		John Farrington Environmental problems of placer gold mining in the Zaamar Goldfield, Mongolia. World Placer Journal 2000, volume 1, pages 107-128.
PLATINUM PLACERS FOUND BY HAND-LENS		Robin Grayson, Baatar Tumenbayar, Minjin Batbayar & B.Altanzul Platinum and gold placers of Late Cretaceous & Quaternary age in Gobi Desert, Mongolia. World Placer Journal 2000, volume 1, pages 129-133.
MINING OF A MERCURY PLACER	Hg	Baatar Tumenbayar, Minjin Batbayar & Robin Grayson Environmental hazard in Lake Baikal watershed posed by mercury placer in Mongolia. World Placer Journal 2000, volume 1, pages 134-159.
TANTALUM-TIN PLACERS ATTRACT ATTENTION	Ta - Sn	Baatar Tumenbayar, Minjin Batbayar & Robin Grayson Tantalite-cassiterite-ilmenite-monazite-gold placer in Mongolia. World Placer Journal 2000, volume 1, pages 160-174.