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The lost Wheelbarrow Mine is claimed to have been located about 10 miles (16 km) from Potlatch in Latah County, Idaho. [1] [2] [3] The reported location is 3,871 feet (1,179.9 meters) above sea level, at the coordinates 46.9975° N, 116.7833° W. [4] [5] The mine, believed to have been dug prior to 1890, was said to have produced $20,000 in gold, before a falling-out between its operators led ...
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Elias D. Pierce then became dedicated to finding and retrieving gold in the Nez Perce Indian region in Northern-Central Idaho, [5] leading to the establishment of Pierce, Idaho. [6] Pierce had joined a former Hudson Bay Company trapper in a trading expedition which led him to settle in the region. [ 5 ]
Hecla Mining is a gold, silver, and other precious metals mining company based in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Founded in 1891, [1] it is the second-largest mining company that produces silver in the country. This area is known as the Silver Valley (Idaho).
The Sunshine Mine is located between the cities of Kellogg and Wallace in northern Idaho.It has been one of the world's largest and most profitable silver mines, having produced over 360 million ounces of silver by 2001.
Mining Claim Corner, Blue Ribbon Mine, Alaska. A placer claim is a mining claim on gravel or ground from which minerals are extracted using water. [1] In the United States, the valuable mineral in a placer claim is almost always gold, although other nations mine placer deposits of platinum, tin, and diamonds.
The DeLamar Mine was an open-pit silver and gold mine in Owyhee County in southwest Idaho, which operated from 1977 to 1998.John Guilbert and Charles Park, Jr. have described the DeLamar mine as "the first modern open-pit silver mine."
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