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A sample of gold from The Boundary Red Mountain Mine. The Boundary Red Mountain Mine of Whatcom County, Washington, United States, consists of six patented lode claims survey in 1902 and patented under patent number 39545. The gold mine was discovered in 1898 and its last production year was 1946. [1] The property is privately owned.
Crystalline gold specimen from Liberty (detail), overall size 3.6 x 2.1 x 1.0 cm. Liberty is a community in Kittitas County, Washington, United States. [2] Following the discovery of gold in Swauk creek in 1873, Liberty was one of several gold-mining camps that sprang up. The Swauk creek discovery is notable for producing specimens of ...
South Carolina had a number of lode gold mines along the Carolina Slate Belt. [42] The Haile deposit was discovered in Lancaster County in 1827, and at least 257,000 troy ounces (8,000 kg) of gold were extracted intermittently between then and 1942, when the gold mine was ordered closed as nonessential to the war effort. Beginning in 1951, the ...
English: Map of Washington NRHP/100 sq. mi., by county. As of 1/8/10 As of 1/8/10 This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America .
This list of gold mines in the United States is subsidiary to the list of mines article and lists working, defunct and future mines in the country and is organised by the primary mineral output. For practical purposes stone, marble and other quarries may be included in this list.
Mineral is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lewis County, Washington, on State Route 7 near the Pierce/Lewis county line. Mineral originally began as a logging camp and mining town. Prospectors searching the area for gold instead found coal and arsenic. By the early 1920s, the mines closed and a devastating fire ...
Republic was founded by gold prospectors in the late 19th century. Mining claims were first made along Eureka Creek on March 1, 1896, [3] after the northern half of the Colville Indian Reservation was vacated on February 21.
Ruby Creek is a tributary of the Skagit River located in the North Cascades of Northwestern Washington. The river's watershed drains the southern Washington portion of the Hozameen Range, and the western section of the North Cascades Scenic Corridor. The creek was named by three prospectors, John Sutter, George Sanger, and John Rowley, in 1872.