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Reference no. 398. Yankee Jims (also, Yankee Jim and Yankee Jim's) [2] is a small community in Placer County, California. [1] It lies at an elevation of 2582 feet (787 m) in the Sierra Nevada foothills. [1] Yankee Jims is located 2.5 miles (4.0 km) west-northwest of Foresthill. [2]
Placer mining (ˈplæsər) [ 1 ] is the mining of stream bed deposits for minerals. [ 2 ] This may be done by open-pit mining or by various surface excavating equipment or tunneling equipment. Placer mining is frequently used for precious metal deposits (particularly gold) and gemstones, both of which are often found in alluvial deposits ...
Gold in California. Three gold nuggets from Tuolumne County, California, similar to what the early miners would have found. Gold became highly concentrated in California, United States as the result of global forces operating over hundreds of millions of years. Volcanoes, tectonic plates and erosion all combined to concentrate billions of ...
Reference no. 399. Foresthill is a census-designated place (CDP) in Placer County, California, United States. It is part of the Sacramento – Arden-Arcade – Roseville Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,692 at the 2020 census, up from 1,483 at the 2010 census.
Gold specimen from the Eagle's Nest Mine, a source of specimen gold in Placer County. Placer County (/ ˈ p l æ s ər / PLASS-ər; Placer, Spanish for "sand deposit"), officially the County of Placer, is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 404,739. [4] The county seat is Auburn. [5]
US annual gold production (1840–2012) In the United States, gold mining has taken place continually since the discovery of gold at the Reed farm in North Carolina in 1799. The first documented occurrence of gold was in Virginia in 1782. [ 1 ] Some minor gold production took place in North Carolina as early as 1793, but created no excitement.
Holcomb Valley is a valley located in the San Bernardino Mountains about five miles north of Big Bear Lake. It was the site of some of the most prolific gold mines in Southern California. It was named after William F. Holcomb, who found gold there in 1860. Holcomb's discovery spurred the largest gold rush in the Southern California region. [1]
Dutch Flat (also, Dutchman's Flat, [ 3 ]Dutch Charlie's Flat, [ 4 ] and Charley's Flat[ 4 ]) is a small unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Placer County, California, United States, about 30 miles (48 km) northeast of Auburn along Interstate 80. It was founded by German immigrants in 1851 and was once one of the ...