Site Update for July 2020

My sincere apologies to everyone visiting the Washington State Miner blog.  The lack of posts and updates for the last few years is due to my ongoing health issues.  Nevertheless, I am determined to revitalize the site with new offerings beginning now.

The first order of business was to update all the existing resource links found in the right-hand sidebar on this page.  Some links were no longer operational.  Others had migrated to new URLs, and these are now current.  Finally, some organizations changed their web offerings entirely.  In these cases, the old listings and links stand replaced with the new ones.  The details of these changes are listed below and in the right-hand sidebar.

Thank you for reading the Washington State Miner.

Removed links:

Discussion Forums
    Gold Prospectors Forum of America
    The Canadian Prospectors Forum
Clubs and Organizations
    North Central Washington Prospectors
General Geology, Mining and Prospecting News and Information
    Alluvial Exploration and Mining
Stream Flow Information
    Washington River and Stream Flow

Edited links:

Discussion Forums
    The New 49'ers Forum - http://new49ers.x10host.com/phpBB3/
Clubs and Organizations
    Jefferson Mining District - http://www.jeffersonminingdistrict.com/
    Resources Coalition - https://resourcescoalition.net/

Replacement links:

BLM Websites
    Geocommunicator is now Navigator - https://navigator.blm.gov/home
USGS Mineral Data
    Replaced both old listings with Mineral Resources Data System - https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/find-mrds.php
Washington State Prospecting Rules and Laws
    2018 Gold and Fish Pamphlet replaced with 2020 Gold and Fish Pamphlet - https://wdfw.wa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/02150/wdfw02150.pdf