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Usually the mines are said to contain valuable elements or minerals such as gold, silver or diamonds. Often there is a map or other document allegedly detailing the history or location of the mine. Common to all the lost mine legends is the idea of a valuable and mysterious resource being lost to history.
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.
The following are lists of gold mines and are subsidiary to the list of mines article and lists working, defunct and planned mines that have substantial gold output, organized by country. North America
Jason Willis, the director of the group's Western Abandoned Mine Lands Program, told Colorado Public Radio that liability rules prevented them from finishing the job. "We were able to do 90 ...
The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in 1848 is one of the defining moments in California history, with roughly 300,000 forty-niners flocking here to make their fortune from the U.S. and abroad.
In the United States, there are thousands of abandoned mines. The precise number of abandoned mines in the United States remains unknown, ranging "from the National Park Service's tally of 2,500 on its lands to the Mineral Policy Center's assessment of 560,000 abandoned mines on public and privately owned lands."
In 1859, gold was discovered in California by a group of prospectors, including a tin manufacturer named W.S. Bodey. And the Gold Rush began.
Everist, a camp of the Mammoth Vein Coal Company (later, the Empire Coal Company), abandoned. Muchakinock, a coal camp of the Consolidation Coal Company, abandoned. Newton, where the well-known Maytag company closed down in 2006. Numa and its abandoned suburb Martinstown, former home of the Numa Block Coal Company.