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Within Japan recreational gold fossicking can be carried out in Hokkaido, Yamanashi and Michinoku. [4] Within Hokkaido, placer gold can be found in the Usotan River, the Peichian River, the Yūbari River, and the Rekifune River. [5] The traditional gold pan used in Japan is a rectangular concave shaped pan called the Yuri-ita (揺り板). [6]
This list of gold mines in the United States is subsidiary to the list of mines article and lists working, defunct and future mines in the country and is organised by the primary mineral output. For practical purposes stone, marble and other quarries may be included in this list.
Gold miners excavate a gold-bearing bluff with jets of water at a placer mine in Dutch Flat, California sometime between 1857 and 1870. Major gold mining in California began during the California Gold Rush. Gold was found by James Marshall at Sutters Mill, property of John Sutter, in present-day Coloma. In 1849, people started hearing about the ...
An auctioneer found the painting stored in an attic during a visit to a private estate in Camden, Maine. ... This Family Found 18th-Century Gold Coins—Worth $300,000—Under Their Kitchen ...
The Castine Hoard (also known as The Castine Deposit [1]) is the name given to a treasure trove of around 500–2,000 North American colonial coins that were found in Castine, Maine, United States. The coins were from various countries, and were buried sometime in the late 1600s.
The Golden Road is a 96-mile (154 km) private road built by the Great Northern Paper Company that stretches from the St. Zacharie Border Crossing to its former mill at Millinocket, Maine. The road, which parallels the West Branch of the Penobscot River , was built between 1969 and 1972 to bring raw wood to the mill from the company's 2.1 ...
The Katahdin Iron Works is a Maine state historic site located in the unorganized township of the same name. It is the site of an ironworks which operated from 1845 to 1890. . In addition to the kilns of the ironworks (of which only one survives), the community was served by a railroad and had a 100-room hot
The Boston Division of the FBI and the Maine State Police are offering a $15,000 reward for assistance in locating a teenage girl who was last seen two months ago. Stefanie Damron, 14, of New ...