If you have ever dreamed of mining in the wilderness of Alaska, of what it would actually be like, how you would go about it and what it takes, I'd like to share with you some of my own personal experiences. 

Alaska is vast and mining in it is quite different from mining in the lower 48.

Let's start with the basics...

If you've been watching the news, you'll no doubt have read all the speculation on what the market is going to do.  You'll hear precious metals prices are rising because stocks are falling because of Korea, China, the President, whatever. 

Then you take a look at the silver & gold charts and see it rocket up, and plummet down.  Of course, it always plummets just before you check it out and by then it's gone up again.  Murphy's Law...our life.

While most of us are aware of all the great uses for silver such as electronics, conductors, jewelry, and even clothing there is another use for silver that can actually cause alarming results if you aren't careful.

Homeopathy providers sometimes sell colloidal silver for a variety of health complaints, but drinking the stuff has a weird side effect:  It turns the skin blue.  No kidding!  Who wants to walk around as a human smurf?

Here's what happens:  Stomach acid strips silver atoms of one electron (electrons have a negative charge), making a positively charged silver ion, or salt. The silver ion then seeps into the bloodstream through channels normally only used by other salts. From the bloodstream, the salts wind up in the skin.