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"Panning out" ~ Stereoscopic view of print taken by the U.S. Geological and Geographic Survey of the Territories ~ circa 1874–1879 Gold panning is a simple process. Once a suitable placer deposit is located, some alluvial deposits are scooped into a pan, where they are then wetted and loosed from attached soils by soaking, fingering, and aggressive agitation in water.
The Benson Mine is an iron-ore mine located near Star Lake, a village in the southern St. Lawrence County, New York. The ore body at Benson Mine was discovered in 1810 by engineers conducting a survey for a new military road from Albany to Ogdensburg. [1] In the 1950s, the mine was considered the largest open pit iron-ore mine in the world.
But the placer deposits worked in the early years were quickly exhausted, and production crashed. Hardrock mining (in California called quartz mining) began in 1849, and placer mining by hydraulic mining began in 1852. Despite the new mining methods, by 1865 production was 867,000 troy ounces (27,000 kg), less than one-quarter of peak production.
The Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company (New York), probably already founded in 1879, [1] but incorporated on April 22, 1882, in Tompkins County, New York, [2] with a capital of $1,000,000, was a San Francisco Stock and Exchange traded mining company.
Rosario Mining Company Post card of San Juancito. The New York and Honduras Rosario Mining Company (NYHRMC), known as Rosario Mining Company, was an American-owned corporation that owned and operated the Rosario mine, a gold and silver producer in central Honduras and Nicaragua.
The North Star Mining Co. was incorporated in May 1884, by William Bowers Bourn II, and the mine was reopened. [6]: 37 [7]: 68 Bourn sold the North Star to James Duncan Hague in 1887. [6]: 37 Hague reorganized the company as the North Star Mines Co. in 1889, and acquired Gold Hill, New York Hill, and the Massachusetts Hill mines.
The fastest clipper ships cut the travel time from New York to San Francisco from seven months to four months in the 1849 California Gold Rush. [1]A gold rush or gold fever is a discovery of gold—sometimes accompanied by other precious metals and rare-earth minerals—that brings an onrush of miners seeking their fortune.
Panning Gold in the Early Colonial Period. Woodcut from La historia general y natural de las Indias, by Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes, Seville, 1535, p. 66. The New York Public Library, Rare Books Division, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations
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