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Show April 14, 1969 OIL & MINING JOURNAL Page 8 ri pproximafe Mining & Oil Stock Quotations This information derived from sources regarded as accurate, not guaranteed, but lieved to be correct. be- BANK & FINANCIAL COMPANY STOCKS INSURANCE COMPANY STOCKS Am. Protectors Life Am. West .Life Beneficial Stnd. Bonneville Sylvn Calif .West .States Franklin Life Ins. Ideal Nat. Life Lincoln Nat. Life Nat. Securities LOW PRICED MINING, OIL & URANIUM STOCKS OMIJICO Oregon National Sentinel Sec. Surety Life MINING STOCKS Carbon Inc. .32 .36 Albertsons, Inc. Allied Nuclear Am. Am. Min.& Dev. Silver Min. Aneth Corp. Aztec Oil Basic Resources Beaver Mesa Gold In The Sky Browning Arms Coeur dAlene Min. Cascade Energy Crown Dev. Empire Pet. Equity Oil Co. Fam. Achiev. (VMH) ar 1st Am. Flying Diamond Rent-a-C- Garrett Freight Gen. American Great Yellowstone Golden Cycle Corp. Gulf Cont.(New IJn. Hydro Flame Intl.Chem.& Dev. Kennebec Micro Copper Monarch Entern. Morris on-Knud- so'n No. Am. Res. (Texota) Oil Inc. Oil Sec. Metals Oil ShaleCorp. I & Pac. AirfTrans. Pet. Resources Pilot Titan Polaris Int. Mtl. Roth Greet. Cards Mining Operation "pRESNO, Calif. One of the biggest individual producers of gold in the is California's Gold miner in nation the sky. Gray-hairewhite mustachioed Fred Santoni goes up in the air, instead of down in the ground, to get to his diggins. Fresnan has sluice The boxes and modified Hungarian riffles mounted on towers at ten 100-to- - 150-fohigh sand and gravel plants in five California counties. s Ho harvests $4,000 to $6,000 worth of diggold each month in his sky-hig- h d, ot gins. The gravel yard gold miner gathers the precious metal at sand and gravel yards on the San Joaquin, Merced, . Tuol-omm- e, Mokelumne and American rivers. As sand passes over Santonis riffles, rides gold being a heavy material the bottom of the sand. The metal drops into slots in the riffles. Mercury beneath the riffles acts as a magnet attracting gold. The gold miner in the sky scales each tower once a week, removing riffles to gather gold. Never get any nuggets just flakes, flour gold, he relates. Santoni splits 50-5- 0 with the sand and gravel producers. |