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  2. Columbia, California - Wikipedia

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    It was founded as a boomtown in 1850 when gold was found during the California Gold Rush, and was known as the "Gem of the Southern Mines." The town's historic central district is within the Columbia State Historic Park, which preserves the 19th century mining town legacy.

  3. List of mining areas in Colombia - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of mining areas in Colombia. [1] The mineral industry of Colombia is large and diverse; the country occupies the first place in mining areas per surface area in the world. In pre-Columbian times, mining of gold, silver, copper, emeralds, salt, coal and other minerals was already widespread.

  4. Columbia State Historic Park - Wikipedia

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    Columbia State Historic Park, also known as Columbia Historic District, is a state park unit and National Historic Landmark District preserving historic downtown Columbia, California, United States. It includes almost 30 buildings built during the California Gold Rush, most of which remain today. [3] It was declared a National Historic Landmark ...

  5. North Columbia, California - Wikipedia

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    Originally known as Columbia, Columbia Hill, or The Hill because of its proximity to Columbia Hill, it started as a gold miners' camp around 1851. [2] When a Post Office was established on May 29, 1860, the word "North" was added in order to differentiate the settlement from Columbia, California, another gold rush town in Tuolumne County ...

  6. List of mines in British Columbia - Wikipedia

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    This is an incomplete list of mines in British Columbia, Canada and includes operating and closed mines, as well as proposed mines at an advanced stage of development (e.g. mining permits applied for).

  7. List of ghost towns in British Columbia - Wikipedia

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    small mining town that sprung up during the Skagit Gold Rush 0 Steamboat Mountain: Silverhope Creek, Hope area, Silver Skagit Rd. Fraser Valley small mining town that sprung up during the Skagit Gold Rush 0 Steamboat City: Silverhope Creek, Hope area, Silver Skagit Rd. Fraser Valley small mining town that sprung up during the Skagit Gold Rush 0 ...

  8. List of company towns in Canada - Wikipedia

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    Gagnon, Quebec, an iron mining company town of Québec Cartier Mining Company, abandoned in 1985.. This is a list of current and former company towns in Canada.True company towns are those "closed communities owned and administered by the industrial employer". [1]

  9. Mineral industry of Colombia - Wikipedia

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    Mining of kaolinite and hematite for pottery pigments started in what is today Colombia since the mid-late neolithic, with archaeological evidence of ceramic production and sedentary groups living in El Abra settlements and the Colombian Caribbean coast (near the towns of San Jacinto, Monsú, Puerto Chacho, and Puerto Hormiga archaeological site) beginning around the year 5940 BCE around the ...