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  2. Michigan Bluff, California - Wikipedia

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    The Michigan City post office operated from 1854 to 1943. [2] Photo of a monument in Michigan Bluff, California. The town was founded by gold miners. Mining began in earnest in 1853, and town was shipping $100,000 in gold per month by 1858. Leland Stanford ran a store in the town from 1853 to 1855.

  3. Reading's Bar - Wikipedia

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    Reading's Bar is a historical site in Redding, California in Shasta County.Reading's Bar is a California Historical Landmark No. 32 listed on August 1, 1932. [1] Reading's Bar was named after Major Pierson Barton Reading, who discovered gold on the Clear Creek bar in May 1848, starting a California Gold Rush in the surrounding area.

  4. List of gold mines in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Hidden underground, in shining fool's gold, signs of life ...

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    The density of pyrite also means the fool's gold material thoroughly filled in tiny areas where the arthropod's body once lay in sediment − including internal body parts, scientists said. "These ...

  6. Gold in California - Wikipedia

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    Because the gold in the California gravel beds was so richly concentrated, the early forty-niners simply panned for gold in California's rivers and streams, a form of placer mining. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] However, panning cannot take place on a large scale, and industrious miners and groups of miners graduated to placer mining " cradles " and "rockers ...

  7. Stunning fossil preserved in fool’s gold reveals newly ...

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    The specimen was preserved in pyrite, or fool's gold, making it easy to produce 3D models of the fossil using CT scans. Credits: Luke Parry/Yu Liu/Ruixin Ran (3D models). - courtesy Luke Parry/Yu ...

  8. List of largest cities on the United States West Coast

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    Historically, the largest population hubs along the West Coast have been centered along the coastal regions and port cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, San Diego, and Anchorage. [1] [2] [3] The majority of the West Coast's largest cities are located within the state of California, with Los Angeles being the largest.

  9. Archaeologists Found a Secret Stash of Gold Coins That ...

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    Notion—along with other Greek cities on the west coast of present-day Turkey—became part of the Persian Empire in the mid-sixth century B.C. Then, come the early fifth century B.C., it came ...