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Thomas Gilman (miner) 1830–1911 Tennessee, U.S. African American freedman, miner, farmer was an enslaved African American who self–purchase freedom during the mid-19th-century Daniel Govan: 1829–1911 Northampton County, North Carolina, U.S. miner, planter, soldier served as a Confederate general during the American Civil War Ulysses S. Grant
The following are lists of gold mines and are subsidiary to the list of mines article and lists working, defunct and planned mines that have substantial gold output, organized by country. North America
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.
Gold miners excavate a gold-bearing bluff with jets of water at a placer mine in Dutch Flat, California sometime between 1857 and 1870. Major gold mining in California began during the California Gold Rush. Gold was found by James Marshall at Sutters Mill, property of John Sutter, in present-day Coloma. In 1849, people started hearing about the ...
At its peak, technological advances reached a point where significant financing was required, increasing the proportion of gold companies to individual miners. Gold worth tens of billions of today's US dollars was recovered, which led to great wealth for a few, though many who participated in the California gold rush earned little more than ...
In 2020 mining overall contributed $9.5 billion to the state's economy, $8.4 billion from gold and silver mining (all silver produced in Nevada is as a by-product from gold mining). Gold production from Nevada was higher than any other U.S. state, 4,632,690 troy ounces (144,090 kg) in 2020 (a decrease of 4.8% on 2019), accounting for 76% of ...
Fred 'Dakota' Hurt, the rugged white-water gold miner who appeared in Discovery's docuseries 'Gold Rush: White Water,' has died after a short battle with brain cancer.
The number of women in the mining communities and mining camps can be estimated by subtracting the roughly 2,000 females who lived in predominately Californio (Hispanics born in California before 1848) communities and were not part of the gold rush community. About 3.0% of the gold rush Argonauts before 1850 were female or about 3,500 female ...