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Gold from
Columbia Mine, Placerville (Hangtown), Placerville Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Gold
Formula:Au
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gold data
Locality Data:Click here to view Columbia Mine, Placerville (Hangtown), Placerville Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:325727
Long-form Identifier:1:3:325727:2
GUID (UUID V4):7692f5e5-8e40-4baf-913e-c7313daefb2c
Nearest other occurrences of Gold
0.2km (0.1 miles) Rose; Chester; Ida Oregon; and Oregon Extension Mine, Placerville (Hangtown), Placerville Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA
0.2km (0.1 miles) Maryland Mine (Pacific), Placerville (Hangtown), Placerville Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA
0.4km (0.3 miles) Oregon Mine, Placerville (Hangtown), Placerville Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) Atlantic Mine, Placerville (Hangtown), Placerville Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) Coon Hollow Mine (Coon Hollow and Excelsior), Coon Hollow, Placerville (Hangtown), Placerville Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) Placerville placers, Placerville (Hangtown), Placerville Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) Shepard and Company Mine (Shepard & Co.; Shepard and Co.), Coon Hollow, Placerville (Hangtown), Placerville Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA
0.9km (0.5 miles) Pacific Quartz Mine (Pacific Mine), Placerville (Hangtown), Placerville Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA
0.9km (0.5 miles) Placerville (Hangtown), Placerville Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) Cedar Spring Mine (Cedar Ravine placer), Placerville (Hangtown), Placerville Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA
References
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Y R T N U O C p ‘Cor rly Mining Days oF a espace — a = = tad — Oke Seyo Ore Ta Pn ai seis... Downieville aher, Stanley W. — arly mining days gold country i ]A : N , ¥ 3 a cae NEV A D...Paher Stanley W. Paher has written 2] books about mining camps and ghost towns, which have become established...collaborated with him in writing about California's gold rush. Photography by Ed Cooper An avid photographer...DenDooven. First Printing, 1996 EARLY MINING Days - CALIFORNIA GOLD COUNTRY: THE STORY BEHIND THE SCENERY
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Al.BUM 11;,@tkh ~ ~ 1 1 / lfANY A GHOST of the Gold Rush haunts California's Mother Lode region and...and the brick-andtimber Saint Anne's Church in Columbia tell more about the character of boomtown life...artistry, historical in terest, and romance of the mining region. Descriptive and anecdotal captions play...like a native, for she has lived many years in Columbia, the famous near-ghost town, that recently hit...l.J:J•;oo. ·: U:--1\"ERSITY PRESS, STANFORD, CALIFORNIA G r.01-F r.EY Ct.: :-lllF.I\L ECE, OxFOI\D U::-:J\'
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HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY i^ GHOST L^SRi!^ TOWNS AND frmt? MINING CAMPS OF CALIFORNIA BY REMI...mini ngOOn ade ^5 GHOST TOWNS AND MINING CAMPS OF CALIFORNIA \ OTHER BOOKS BY REMI NADEAU City-Makers...Seekers The Ghost Towns Los Angeles: California: of California From Mission The New to Society ... Modern City GHOST TOWNS AND MINING CAMPS OF 3^-'Sr, CALIFORNIA BY REMI NADEAU THE WARD RITCHIE...Much S. Langstaff book appeared in the auof California, published by Fortnight Magazine in 1954, and
Field Trip Notes
Q E S5 W63 1994 EART ROADSIDE GEOLOGY AND MINING HISTORY OF THE MOTHER LODE 1994 Gregg Wilkerson...| LIBRARY UNIVERSITY or California … • * * ** ROADSIDE GEOLOGY AND MINING HISTORY º OF THE MOTHER...Field Trip Program Mother Lode '94 Bakersfield District Office Bureau of Land Managmement 3801 Pegasus...55 Plymouth to Placerville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Placerville to Auburn. . .... . . 14 TV QFºo 5-M/43 ROADSIDE GEOLOGY AND MINING HISTORY OF THE MOTHER |*4 EART LODE Gregg Wilkerson
Report (issue)
C3 A3 NO. 193 C.2 GOLD DISTRICTS OF CALIFORNIA BULLETIN 193 California Division of Mines and...Geology Sacramento, California, 1970 GOLD By William B. DISTRICTS OF CALIFORNIA Clark Geologist...Geologist, California Division of Mines & Geology, Sacramento, California UNIVERSITY LIBRARY U.C DAVIS '~'^...though Nugget. This 201 -ounce (troy) cluster of gold on display in the Division of Mines and Geology...Geology San Francisco's Ferry Building. Melted down as gold, it would be worth tome seven or eight The Fricof
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STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GOLD DEPOSITS OF THE WESTERN SIERRA NEVADA Field Trip...Economic Geologists Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California February, 1984 Open-File Report 84-169 This...Menlo Park, California 2 California Division of Mines and Geology, Sacramento, California INTRODUCTION...of the bulk of California's past gold production. Although gold mining decreased greatly in the years during...increases in gold prices coupled with advances in extractive techniques have rekindled interest in mining this
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nomenclature. 1. U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction.............here are data on sulfide and nonsulfide mineralogy, gold and silver grades and deposit tonnage. A discussion...name, country, local geographical area, mineralogy, gold and silver grades, tonnage, and references are given...deposit. Table 4, part B, gives an alphabetic list of mine and properties followed by the deposit name. CHARACTERISTICS...in the Sierra Nevada, California (Clark, 1970); Klamath Mountains, California-Oregon (Hotz, 1971); and
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: The Sausalito Public Library Sauialito, California RULES FOR BORROWERS Any person living in Sausalito...ddaOObaue CALIFORNIA GOLD DAYS Books by Helen Bauer CALIFORNIA GOLD DAYS CALIFORNIA MISSION DAYS...DAYS CALIFORNIA RANCHO DAYS CALIFORNIA JJAY O SAN FRANCISCO • by Helen Bauer ibhqbakCOMPANY, 4\ GARDEN...LITHOGRAPHED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY COLUMBIA LITHOGRAPHIC CO., INC., N. Y. FIRST EDITION...them are my good friend, day scenes in the gold country; Arthur Barr and life; who have wishes
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Box Six Sausalito, • California __.I IN BOX SIX SAUSALITO CALIFORNIA s__J ... The late nineteenth...and drama to the Gold Rush of California. People the world over were reinfected by mining fever, Including...Californians who had not yet recovered from the gold epidemic. Some decamped immediately for Africa;...in their own back yards. Here in California, though no paying mine was discovered, a considerable number...much as $5,000 were recovered from the hydraulic gold mines of the Mother Lode. Although this figure was
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2015 The Canning Gold Collection Figure 1. The best of Canning’s New England gold specimens are these...collecting and specialized in gold specimens” (Huizing 2005). Canning’s gold collection was recently donated...famous find. He dug an enormous hole at the Rist mine in Hiddenite, North Carolina.   96*2: 405... a white crystal rich in faces from the Aldrich mine in Stoneham, Maine. Beyond his self-collected specimens...favored titanium minerals and gold, the focus here. ;OL.VSK*VSSLJ[PVU Gold specimens formed only a small
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(2/22.9". CALIFORNIA MINERALs AN NO TAT E D CATALOG U E or THE PRINCIPAL MINERAL SPECIES hitherto...oGY, GEology, AND MINING, IN THE DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE OF the COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA. … --- ..". or ºr...AUTHORS AND UPON PUBLICATIONS THE MINERALOGY OF CALIFORNIA. ANTISELL, THoMAs. U. S. Pacific Railroad Reports;...Inedited. Memoir on the Geology of the Coast of California. United States Coast Survey Report for 1855....of the gold region of California and Oregon, with notices of mineral localities in California, and of
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City Fae end i } ™ . A Guide To The California Gold tl ; : ae ; $.S.F, PUBLIC LIBRARY WEST...One LIBRARY eas California Gold The KAT EE | R @ A Guide to the California Gold Rush € SSF R. Hart...modern day explorer who helped locate and recover Gold Rush era steamship Central America. amazing accomplishment...JUDY DOYLE (& FAMILY): as a primary source. CALIFORNIA STATE were incredibly helpful the lost He...Grandfather's Gold Rush diary LIBRARY STAFF IN THE CALIFORNIA ROOM: They in setting me up with Gold Rush
Report (issue)
Minerals of California By ARTHUR S. EAKLE, MARCH, Ph.D. 1914 Issued by California State Mining Bureau...Hon Hiram W. Johnson, Governor of the State of California. Sir: I have the honor to transmit Bureau...Minerals of herewith Bulletin 67 of the State Mining California. This work was made possible at this date...Bureau. and Mineralogy of the University of California, with this Eakle has given freely of his time...Minerals Distribution by Counties Bibliography on California Minerals Index to Minerals — 197 204 210 220
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KRAK Radio Country Music Picnic! PAN GOLD at the "Glory Hole Mine"! SEE the Indian Village! RENT a horse...miles of scenic wilderness trail, in adjoining El Dorado National Forest! CAMPING BY RESERVATION! LOCATED...POLLOCK PINES P. 0. BOX 111, Pollock Pines, California PHONE: (916) 644-2415 mo sum GUARANTEED FOR...IVW,THOU 3995 NEW PATENTED DESIGN DETECTS BURIED GOLD, SILVER COINS, JEWELRY INDIAN ARTIFACTS AND CIVILWAR...like chests, tools, jars of coins, bars or veins of gold, silver and other precious metals. Can also be used
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Editor in chief Joseph Henry Jackson TO CALIFORNIA IN 49 The complete story of the greatest treasure-hunt...uppermost in men's minds everywhere—the gold fields of California. In this album of photographs, drawings...farm animals), by the various routes he took to California. Here are the sights and rigors of the jour¬...Argonauts found the easy wealth they were seeking. Mining turned out to be no simple affair. You might not...some get¬ ting. Maybe you did well; you found both gold and water together, and you came to the end of the
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES CALIFORNIA IOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY Volume... FERRY BUILDmG. SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA ^J STATE OF CALIFORNIA GOODWIN J. KNIGHT. Governor ...1956 CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY Price $1.00 LIBRARY UNIVERSliY OF CALIFORNIA Da VIS...VIS NO. 1 STATE OF CALIFORNIA GOODWIN J. KNIGHT, Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES DeWitt...several thousand books and journals on geology, mining, mineralogy, chemistry, metaland related subjects
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A Guide —_—___@_____ California Gold Rush Revised Edition - With descriptions and...a WORN, SOILED, OBSOLETE “A Guide to the California Gold Rush”’ Front cover: the Great Basin in Nevada...& Athena Past & Present ¢ A Guide to the California Gold Rush € Revised Edition By Eugene R. Hart ...thanks to the California State Library in Sacramento, California FreeWheel Publications 1173 El Portal Drive...Drive Merced, California 95340-0676 granite @ elite.net All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction
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visitor centers and scenic areas, contact the California Office of Tourism, P.O. Box 9278, T98, Dept....size, that display rocks, minerals, fossils, or mining memorabilia and equipment. It was interesting to... Displays feature early mining equipment, rocks, minerals, fossils, and gold-rush memorabilia. Arcata:...vertebrate, invertebrate, and plant fossils. Auburn: Gold Country Museum, 1273 High St., on the fairgrounds...9161889-6500. Displays include rocks, minerals, and mining artifacts. Features include a stamp mill and a
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OTIS SMITH, DIRECTOR OF THE SIERRA NEVADA OF CALIFORNIA : I I / BY WALDEMAR - LINDGREN OFFICE ......... __ . _. _. _........... ~. '- ....... . Mining debris ............................. _.... ___..... ________ . . _. __ .-. ; ... __ Quantity of mining debris, by G. K. Gilbert ...•..... _._ ..........gravels-Continued. Flora of the auriferous gravels of California, by F.' H. Knowlton ...................... ............. .. .. .... .......... . 61 Chapter 4. Gold of the Tertiary gravels ......................
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is a mined piece of the cap rock of a salt dome. Mining was required to obtain a good rock from the state...monument. (Photography courtesy of Pam Andrisani, California Bicentennial Foundation for the U.S. Constitution...caravan. (Photograph courtesy Pam Andri­ sani, California Bicentennial Foundation for the U.S. Consti­...Company quarry, Independence County California Mariposite-rich rock (green, gold bearing) 115 m.y. (Cretaceous)...(Cretaceous) Near Sutter's Mill, near Placerville, El Dorado County Colorado* Pikes Peak Granite (pink)
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IgtmmtSlTY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from University...University of California, Davis Libraries http://archive.org/details/reportofstatemin15cali CALIFORNIA STATE...STATE MINING BUREAU FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO ^LETCHER HAMILTON State Mineralogist [December, 1917...PORTIONS OF CALIFORNIA Chapters of State Mineralogist's Report Biennial Period 1915-1916 CALIFORNIA STATE...OFFICE SACRAMENTO 19 19 LIBRARY UNIVERSITY Cr CALIFORNIA Da v I S CONTENTS. Page Administrative
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and Ornamental Stones of California Issued California State by the Mining Bureau Francisco. Ferry...growing of the output care Kunz, A.M., No. California,” Stones of of which this Bulletin treats is...to F. George Bureau: Mining Ornamental the Honorable and California, of State the of the...have report, again department. Bureau is California, of this Museum from their mines, I of the...--------------- MINES IN CALIFORNIA APPENDIX—CALIFORNIA 121 ---------- STATE MINING BUREAU 159 -----
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“LT GRES BROWN ASHOE COUNTY LIBRARY AND GOOD TIME GIRLS OF THE GOLD RUSH [1849-1859] BY GARY H...BIRTH OF AMERICA BOOKS™ HEMET, CALIFORNIA NO LONGER PROPERTY OF WASHOE COUNTY LIBRARY THE BLACKJACK QUEEN...QUEEN, CUTTTHROATS AND GOOD TIME GIRLS OF THE GOLD RUSH [1849-1859] Copyright 2004 Gary H. Wiles and Delores...THE GOLD RUSH [1849-1859] GARY WILES AND DELORES BROWN TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter Three California Maps...Queen & Handsome Tom 6 Longshoremen’s Matinee 7 Gold Cleansed by Southern Blood 8 Queen of Nevada [City]
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19% Century Lake Tahoe & Western Nevada Mining Districts By The people who lived and made the region...region s history. 19h Century Books I EL DORADO COUNTY LIB 00905 ill 6407 >be Rave Reviews for The...black and white photos that bring early Northern California to life. Sidebars on each page give fascinating...hours read- Iam a lifelong resident of Northern California, and I learned from ing the writings of those...illustrated . . .” Auburn Journal El Dorado County Library 345 Fair Lane Placerville, CA 95667 GOLDEN QUEST
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M^iajKaMVMtrVMMIMMVW^- 'Vv s > MINERALS Of CALIFORNIA BULl,ETIN N«, 91 issei0 BY rr: ^ ;wIFORNIA...BULLETIN [November, 1922 No. 91 Minerals of California $ BY ARTHUR S. EAKLE, Ph. D. Professor...Mineralogy, University of California COMPLIMENTS OF ^^^foyd Sc, c/iosty GIST CALIFORNIA STATE PRINTING OFFICE...Stephens, Governor of the State of California, Sacramento, California Sir: I have the honor to transmit...upon the minerals of California. This bulletin records our knowledge of California minerals to date,
 
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