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The Monte Cristo Gold Mine (Spanish for Mountain of Christ Gold Mine) is a gold mine in the San Gabriel Mountains near Los Angeles, California, USA. The Monte Cristo Gold Mine is part of the quest for mineral wealth in the San Gabriels. Many of the older tunnels and shafts are closed, and the 100-year-old machinery is no longer in operation.
Exhibits include the crystalline gold Fricot Nugget, weighing 201 troy ounces (6.25 kg), the largest found during the California Gold Rush; a working scale model of a stamp mill over 100 years old, demonstrating the process of extracting gold from quartz rock; and a replica hard rock mine tunnel that allows visitors to better understand California's hard rock mines.
Paymaster Stamp Mill, relocated to Jake Jackson Museum, Weaverville, California; Kentucky Mine Stamp Mill and museum, near Sierra City, California; 30 stamp mill near Cordova, Ontario; Mining History Illustrations 5 cutaway drawings of mills produced by the Joshua Hendy Iron Works Company during the early 1900s. Western Museum of Mining and ...
Scandinavian Philatelic Library of Southern California (Los Angeles) [17] Sequoia Stamp Club (Redwood City) [17] Simi Valley Stamp & Coin Club [17] Society of Israel Philatelists, Los Angeles Chapter [17] Solano Stamp Club [21] Southern California Precancel Club [17] Stamp Club of Calaveras County [17] Stockton Stamp Club [17]
Peter Donohue, an Irish immigrant, founded Union Brass & Iron Works in the south of Market area of San Francisco in 1849. It was later run by his son, James Donohue. After years as the premiere producer of mining, railroad, agricultural and locomotive [2] machinery in California, Union Iron Works, led by I. M. Scott, entered the ship building business and relocated to Potrero Point where its ...
Reed Gold Mine Ten-Stamp Mill Typical late 19th-century western-US stamp mill. 1895 Midland: North Carolina United States ASME brochure: 85: 1983 PACECO Container Crane World's first high-speed, dockside container-handling crane. 1959 Alameda: California United States 1987: Purchased by and now located in Port of Nanjing, China.
A woman running a California shipping company cost the U.S. Postal Service more than $150 million by creating her own fake stamps, federal officials say.
Empire Mine State Historic Park is a state-protected mine and park in the Sierra Nevada mountains in Grass Valley, California, U.S.The Empire Mine is on the National Register of Historic Places, a federal Historic District, and a California Historical Landmark.