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Lump Gulch is an area of silver and gold mines in Jefferson County in the state of Montana in the United States. It's also known as the Lump Gulch Placer and the Lump Gulch Mining District and a former mining camp called Lump Gulch City. [1] [2] [3] It was named Lump Gulch in 1864 after a lump of gold found by prospectors William Sprague and ...
The most important mines, including the Hummingbird, Slim Jim, Schabert, Baker Group, and Three Sisters, are all located along the divide between Confederate Gulch and White Creek, principally on Miller Mountain. Lode mines produced only $100,000 in gold, while the placers of Confederate Gulch yielded this sum one hundred and fifty times over.
Hydraulic gold mining in Alder Gulch, 1871. Photo by William Henry Jackson. Placer mining in Alder Gulch, 1872. Alder Gulch (alternatively called Alder Creek) is a place in the Ruby River valley, in the U.S. state of Montana, where gold was discovered on May 26, 1863, by William Fairweather and a group of men including Barney Hughes, Thomas Cover, Henry Rodgers, Henry Edgar and Bill Sweeney ...
The Jicarilla Mountains, also called Sacramento Mountains, are a mountain range in Lincoln County, New Mexico [1] in the southwestern United States, south to the Guadalupe Mountains, one of the highest peaks in the territory and a placer mining district in New Mexico. [2] [3] The Jicarilla Mountains were named after the Jicarilla Apache Nation.
Gold mining is one of the most common uses for the staking of mining claims. In Alaska, state mining claims may be up to 160 acres (0.65 km 2), and there is no distinction between lode or placer claims. The boundaries of the claim must follow the 4 cardinal directions, with an exception being adjustments for existing valid claims.
Placer mining is frequently used for precious metal deposits (particularly gold) and gemstones, both of which are often found in alluvial deposits—deposits of sand and gravel in modern or ancient stream beds, or occasionally glacial deposits. The metal or gemstones, having been moved by stream flow from an original source such as a vein, are ...
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Hillsboro is an unincorporated community in Sierra County, New Mexico, United States, located in the southwestern part of the state. It was founded in 1877, following the discovery of gold . The community was the county seat of Sierra County from 1884 until 1936, when Hot Springs (now called Truth or Consequences ) became the county seat.