Public Lands for the People has moved the drawing of its 2016 major prize raffle to Friday, July 22, to facilitate live coverage of the event at the Gold Prospectors Association of America national office in Temecula. Calif.

Northern Hills Prospectors, a local GPAA chapter based in Deadwood, S.D. has announced plans to hold its Deadwood Gold Show 2016 in mid-October. The chapter members thought it was time to have a gold show in the Black Hills of South Dakota again to bring everybody back to the area,” said Nancy Denke, chapter secretary. “The last gold show, put on by a different club, was held in 2012 so the time seemed right to get people back up into the Black Hills.”

Brandon Rinehart’s lawyer may have said it best when he told the Supreme Court of California that the state’s ban on suction dredging is like “giving the finger” to federal mining law.