- What was "Bomb the Miners Week" at the Nevada Legislature in the late 1980s? - How was Nevada mining pitted against the state's school children in 1989? How did that battle turn out? - What were the "S.S." and "Jim Dandy gold fee" bills? Learn the answers to these questions and discover a modern-day David and Goliath in this fourth and final volume of the Dave W. Parkhurst Mining Writing Collection, which is a compilation of articles that were published in the former California Mining Journal (now the ICMJ). FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT: Mining's Battle for Survival in the American West focuses on the efforts of those "fighting the good fight" in behalf of miners and prospectors in Nevada, and elsewhere in the western United States, in the 1980s and early 1990s. It covers five main topics: (1) the U.S. government vs. mining, (2) miners and the U.S. Forest Service, (3) implementation of the mining claim holding fee, (4) Nevada miners vs. the politicians and anti-mining factions, and (5) metals and minerals mining in the Silver State.