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Mine: Coordinates: Town: Owner: Dates: Comments: Argonaut Mine: Jackson: Argonaut Mining Company: 1893–1942 registered as California Historical Landmark #786 ...
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Mines in California (3 C, 4 P) Mining communities in California (1 C, 38 P) ... Pages in category "Mining in California" The following 41 pages are in this category ...
Placer gold deposits were found at San Ysidro in San Diego County in 1828, San Francisquito Canyon and Placerita Canyon in Los Angeles County in 1835 and 1842, respectively Gold miners excavate a gold-bearing bluff with jets of water at a placer mine in Dutch Flat, California sometime between 1857 and 1870.
Gold mines in California (25 P) Pages in category "Mines in California" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
The Gold Country (also known as Mother Lode Country) is a historic region in the northern portion of the U.S. state of California, that is primarily on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada. It is famed for the mineral deposits and gold mines that attracted waves of immigrants, known as the 49ers, during the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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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 ...