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California Placer Mining

admin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:01:32 +0000

OK, some of my readers seem to believe that the documents I post are to obtuse for the average weekend gold miner. I don’t tend to agree because the average weekend gold miner is probably an engineer, auto mechanic, or school teacher during the week, and none of this stuff is rocket science. Also, you [...]

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Washington State Gold Mining

admin — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:06:02 +0000

Here’s a great document about Washington State gold mining. It’s a 1955 document prepared by the Washington State Division of Mines and Geology. This is pretty much the bible for the Washington gold miner, because it gives 162 pages worth of information on the history and location of mines in Washington state. A gold miner [...]

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Lost Virginia Gold Mines!

admin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:20:46 +0000

This is an absolutely great document if you live anywhere in the Virginia or anywhere in that part of the country, because this is a 1975 report by the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Division of Minerals on the location of old gold mines. This is LITERALLY a treasure map that gives turn by turn directions to [...]

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Historical Mining Document – 1880 Report on Placer Mining

admin — Tue, 26 May 2009 00:26:48 +0000

Below is a link to a 64 page document about placer mining from about 1880. I believe it is from the United States Bureau of Mines, but I didn’t see anything that said for sure. However, it is a great document that every gold miner should read, because it has information on the big and [...]

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