Download or read book Mining Camps of Placer County written by Carmel Barry-Schweyer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything in Placer County history leads to gold, from its name--the Spanish term for gold-bearing gravel--to the mining camps that sprouted overnight in its rugged river canyons. Ecstatic cries of "Gold on the American River!" in 1848 launched the largest voluntary migration in the history of the world. As claims "panned out," thousands of miners swarmed like locusts between the rough-and-tumble mining camps, from the crest of the Sierra Nevada to the Sacramento Valley. Some camps disappeared along with the easy placer gold; others found new methods to extract gold deposited deep in quartz veins or underground and developed into stable towns that still stand. Sometimes washing whole hillsides into rivers, hydraulic mining was outlawed in the 1880s, but the colorful characters and tall tales of the Gold Rush live on.

Download or read book Methods of Placer Mining written by Garnet Basque and published by Surrey, B.C. : Heritage House. This book was released on 1999 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many creeks and rivers in the west are still good gold producers. This book describes methods of extracting placer gold, including rocker, tom, sluice, electrostatic, and hydraulic concentrators.

Download or read book Federal Placer mining Laws and Regulations written by United States. Bureau of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hydraulic and Placer Mining written by Eugene Benjamin Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Placer Examination Principles and Practice written by John H. Wells and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Small scale Placer Mines as a Source of Gold Employment and Livelihood in 1935 written by Charles White Merrill and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book How to Mine and Prospect for Placer Gold written by J. M. West and published by . This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increased leisure time and increased interest in the out-of-doors is leading more and more families to experiment with placer mining of gold, and sometimes even to going on into small-scale production. This book supplies basic information on areas of occurrence, equipment needed, prospecting, sampling, mining, and regulations concerning the possession and sale of gold. Selected references are given for further study. Placer gold has tantalized many a person who has tried his luck and skill in the hope of striking it rich. Separating gold from embedded materials is basically simple, and can be done effectively on nearly any scale, depending upon the deposit and the capital available for investment. The final product is consistently in demand at a relatively stable price. Historically, however, one must be advised that rewards for the majority of small-scale miners-those who operate "on a shoestring"-have been depressingly small. First of all the placer miner must know where the placer deposits are located and he must have the technical knowledge to extract the gold. Additionally, he must face problems of land ownership, water supply, and water pollution, all of which have grown in complexity with the population. The costs of labor and equipment are relatively high now, although this may not seem significant to an individual mining a small deposit. Secondhand equipment may become available at relatively low cost because of a slowdown in construction or as surplus at the end of a war. By taking advantage of such opportunities, one can sometimes make an otherwise unprofitable operation successful, at least as long as the equipment holds up. To the novice or "weekend prospector," the more complex of placer mining may seem hard to comprehend. At any rate, the novice is often more interested in the recreational values offered by gold placering than in its profitability. Thus, the search for and discovery of even a small grain or nugget of gold is an achievement worth of considerable effort. As a start, the beginner may gain some benefit from visiting one of the many pan-for-a-fee tourist establishments typically found in gold-mining areas.

Download or read book Placer mining Methods and Costs in Alaska written by Norman L. Wimmler and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Placer Gold Deposits of the Sierra Nevada written by Paul D. Morrison and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in one volume, the major placer locations of the Sierra Nevada, taken from the original publications of that region. Complete with maps and descriptive text.

Download or read book Placer Mining in the Western United States written by Eugene Delos Gardner and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Placer Mining written by Colliery Engineer Company (Scranton, Pa.) and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Placer Mining written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Small scale Placer mining Methods written by Charles Freeman Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Placer Gold Deposits of Arizona written by Maureen G. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A catalog of location, geologogy and production with lists of annotated references pertaining to the placer districts.

Download or read book Placer Mining for Gold in California written by Averill Charles Volney and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Placer Gold Deposits of New Mexico written by Maureen G. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A catalog of location, geology, and production, with lists of annotated references pertaining to the placer districts.

Download or read book Placer Mining for Gold in California Classic Reprint written by Charles Volney Averill and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Placer Mining for Gold in California The increase in the price of gold from in 1932 to in 1933 and to in 1934 made such stories seem even more plausible and helped further to stimulate the migration of men to the creeks, despite the unfortunate experiences related by most of those drifting back from the gold-bearing areas. Stories of those who succeeded in making a living and of the very few who made strikes continued to be magnified out of all proportion, both in passing from mouth to mouth and in the press, and brought new recruits to the streams as late as 1937. It is obvious to those versed in gold mining that the facts are greatly exaggerated in these stories. To the hard-pressed unemployed, however, these accounts sounded like the answer to their need. How could they know that for every one who made a strike in placer mining, tens of thousands would find little or nothing, that not more than a few score at most could possibly expect to develop a profitable lode mine, and that large amounts of capital would be required for most of these mines? The experience of the thousands who are unsuccessful in placer ing does not make news; the story of the man here and there who is lucky does. Most of the accounts were stories of success, stories which were news but which were misleading to the unemployed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.