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Argonaut Mining Company: 1893–1942 registered as California Historical Landmark #786. Golden Fleece Tunnel: Westville: Golden Fleece Mining & Milling Co. Iron Mountain Mine: Redding: Kennedy Mine: Jackson: 1886–1942 South of Sutter Gold Mine Locarno Mine
Gold: the California story. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-21547-8. Rawls, James J. and Orsi, Richard J. (eds.) (1999). A golden state: mining and economic development in Gold Rush California (California History Sesquicentennial Series, 2). Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
The Monte Cristo Gold Mine (Spanish for Mountain of Christ Gold Mine) is a gold mine in the San Gabriel Mountains near Los Angeles, California, USA. The Monte Cristo Gold Mine is part of the quest for mineral wealth in the San Gabriels. Many of the older tunnels and shafts are closed, and the 100-year-old machinery is no longer in operation.
Documented visits to the mine site occurred in 1837, in 1860, in August 1871, in May 1884, and possibly again in 1915 when a map surfaced in Bakersfield. Two peons, C. F. Salazar and J. A. Miklas, sold a map to ex-Sheriff J. W. Kelly and two associates for $500. [13] [14] [15] It is not clear if the partners who purchased the map ever found the ...
Exhibits include the crystalline gold Fricot Nugget, weighing 201 troy ounces (6.25 kg), the largest found during the California Gold Rush; a working scale model of a stamp mill over 100 years old, demonstrating the process of extracting gold from quartz rock; and a replica hard rock mine tunnel that allows visitors to better understand California's hard rock mines.
Like many of California's estimated 47,000 abandoned mines, the Idaho-Maryland has a toxic legacy. An arsenic-laden tailing berm near the site of the abandoned mine. (Elias Funez / Union)
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.
"Cities within the County of Los Angeles" (PDF). Chief Executive Office - Los Angeles County "Census 2010: Table 3A — Total Population by Race (Hispanic exclusive) and Hispanic or Latino: 2010". California Department of Finance. Archived from the original (Excel) on November 24, 2011