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  2. Land of the Yankee Fork State Park - Wikipedia

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    Land of the Yankee Fork State Park is a history-oriented public recreation area covering 521 acres (211 ha) in Custer County, Idaho, United States. The state park interprets Idaho's frontier mining history, including the ghost towns Bayhorse, Bonanza, and Custer. The interpretive center near Challis has a museum and gold panning station.

  3. Stibnite Mining District - Wikipedia

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    A specimen of stibnite. The Stibnite Mining District sits atop the Idaho Batholith, one of the signature features of Idaho’s unique geology.The Idaho Batholith is nearly 14,000 square miles (36,000 km 2) of granite, formed from the collision of the oceanic plate and the North American Plate around 100 million years ago during the Cretaceous period. [10]

  4. Gold mining in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Coeur d’Alene district in Shoshone County has made 44,000 troy ounces (1,400 kg) of gold as byproduct to silver mining. [27] In 2006, active gold mines in Idaho included the Silver Strand mine and the Bond mine. [28]

  5. Gold panning - Wikipedia

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    "Panning out" ~ Stereoscopic view of print taken by the U.S. Geological and Geographic Survey of the Territories ~ circa 1874–1879 Gold panning is a simple process. Once a suitable placer deposit is located, some alluvial deposits are scooped into a pan, where they are then wetted and loosed from attached soils by soaking, fingering, and aggressive agitation in water.

  6. Silver City Historic District (Idaho) - Wikipedia

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    The Silver City Historic District is a historically significant mining area in northwestern Owyhee County, Idaho, United States. [1] It includes the abandoned town of Silver City and numerous nearby towns, mines, and mining remains, covering approximately 16 square miles (41 km 2 ).

  7. Quartzburg, Idaho - Wikipedia

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    In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Idaho City, Centerville, Placerville, Quartzburg, and Pioneerville were the principal centers of the Idaho gold mining industry. All the towns are connected by roads, and several roads lead to outside points. Idaho City, the county seat, is connected to Boise by a 32 mile long.

  8. South Boise Historic Mining District - Wikipedia

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    The South Boise Historic Mining District, in Elmore County, Idaho and including Rocky Bar, Idaho, is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. It included eight contributing buildings and a contributing site on 8,640 acres (35.0 km 2), or about a ten square mile area. [1]

  9. Wardner, Idaho - Wikipedia

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    Born in Wisconsin in 1846, he held various occupations in Arizona, California, Utah, Wisconsin, South Dakota, and Washington state. After his time in the Silver Valley of Idaho, he followed the mining booms to South Africa, British Columbia, and the Klondike; he published his autobiography in 1900 and died in El Paso, Texas in 1905. [8] [9]