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The Carolina gold rush, the first gold rush in the United States, followed the discovery of a large gold nugget in North Carolina in 1799, [2] by a 12-year-old boy named Conrad Reed. He spotted the nugget while playing in Meadow Creek on his family's farm in Cabarrus County, North Carolina .
Gold Hill was incorporated in 1843 and had a population of 3000 people and a total of 23 mines in the Gold Hill Mining District. The California Gold Rush and the American Civil War significantly reduced the mining activity. [6] Although some mining occurred in the years following the Civil War a greater resurgence of mining began with the ...
A view of Broken Hill from Brown's Shaft, at Junction Mine. Broken Hill is Australia's longest-lived mining city. In 1844, the explorer Charles Sturt saw and named the Barrier Range, and at the time referred to a "Broken Hill" in his diary. [6] [7] Silver ore was later discovered on this broken hill in 1883 by boundary rider Charles Rasp.
Old Kintore headframe, now a museum exhibit, Broken Hill Former Delprat mine, Line of Lode, Broken Hill, 2017. The Broken Hill Ore Deposit is located underneath Broken Hill in western New South Wales, Australia, and is the namesake for the town. It is arguably the world's richest and largest zinc-lead ore deposit.
Gold mining played a minor role here when deposits were discovered on Gibson Hill (or Gold Hill) south of town in the early 1800s. In 1888, the Chifar Consolidated Gold Mine Company began crushing ore at a mine a half mile south of the depot in Gibsonville. [9] The town cemetery is located in that area, but no graves have yielded gold.
The belt is best known for old abandoned gold mines. North Carolina led the nation in gold production for 50 years , between the discovery of a 17-pound (7.7 kg) gold nugget at the Reed Gold Mine in Cabarrus County, NC near Charlotte in 1799 and the discovery of gold during the California Gold Rush of 1849.
Gold Hill: 12: Lentz Hotel: Lentz Hotel: June 14, 1982 : College St. Mount Pleasant: The Lentz Hotel in Mount Pleasant, North Carolina, is an historic site built in 1853 that is the oldest commercial building in Cabarrus County, North Carolina. 13
Broken Hill Silver, started 1882, relatively old mine for Australia 31°52′59″S 141°19′37″E / 31.8830°S 141.3270°E / -31.8830; 141.3270 ( Historic Daydream