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started his meat packing business with funds from success in the Gold Fields [3] Josiah Belden: 1815–1892 Connecticut, U.S. politician, rancho grantee first mayor of San Jose, California: Charles H. Bennett (soldier) 1811–1855 Walla Walla, Washington, U.S. soldier, hotelier present at the first discovery of gold John Bidwell: 1819–1900
George Hearst (September 3, 1820 – February 28, 1891) was an American businessman, politician, and patriarch of the Hearst business dynasty.After growing up on a small farm in Missouri, he founded many mining operations, and is known for developing and expanding the Homestake Mine in the late 1870s in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
This list of gold mines in the United States is subsidiary to the list of mines article and lists working, defunct and future mines in the country and is organised by the primary mineral output. For practical purposes stone, marble and other quarries may be included in this list.
William Pigg (1831–1902) was a French gold prospector, explorer, and farmer who was involved in gold mining operations in southeast Africa during the 19th century. He was the founder and namesake of Piggs Peak , where he discovered a gold reef in 1884.
The mine produced 366,000 troy ounces (11,400 kg) of gold through 1959. [14] The last gold mine to operate in Arizona was the Gold Road mine at Oatman, which shut down in 1998. Patriot Gold is exploration drilling at the Moss mine at Oatman. [15] In 2006, all of Arizona's gold production came as a byproduct of copper mining.
The Carlin deposit, from which the current Nevada gold-mining industry grew, was his first discovery. In 1961, after reading an article by Ralph J. Roberts , Alignment of Mining Districts in North-Central Nevada , and then hearing a talk by Roberts, Livermore, then a Newmont Mining geologist, pursued Roberts' theory to track down the 4 million ...
The Guggenheim family (/ ˈ ɡ ʊ ɡ ən h aɪ m / GUUG-ən-hyme) is an American-Jewish family known for making their fortune in the mining industry, in the early 20th century, especially in the United States and South America. After World War I, many family members withdrew from the businesses and became involved in philanthropy, especially in ...
In c. 1912, the land was subdivided to create the a neighborhood named "Hayward Park; [13] which also has a Caltrain station stop with the same name. The Hayward Building (also known as Kohl Building, or Alvinza Hayward Building; 1901), designed by architects George Percy and Willis Polk of Percy and Polk, is located at 400 Montgomery Street ...
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