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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 ...
t. e. The California gold rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. [1] The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. [2] The sudden influx of gold into the money supply ...
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]
The Leadville mining district, located in the Colorado Mineral Belt, was the most productive silver-mining district in the state of Colorado and hosts one of the largest lead-zinc-silver deposits in the world. Oro City, an early Colorado gold placer mining town located about a mile east of Leadville in California Gulch, was the location to one ...
Virginiatown is located on Auburn Ravine, 7.5 miles (12.1 km) west of Auburn. [ 2 ] Virginiatown is California Historical Landmark #400. [ 3 ] The town was the site of one of California's first railroads, built in 1852 to carry gold ore from the mines to Auburn Ravine. [ 4 ] After the first wave of gold mining ended, wood-cutting became an ...