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Clear Creek is a tributary of the South Platte River, approximately 66 miles (106 km) long, [3] in north central Colorado in the United States. The creek flows through Clear Creek Canyon in the Rocky Mountains directly west of Denver, descending through a long gorge to emerge at the town of Golden, finally ending in the Colorado Eastern Plains where it joins the South Platte.
Ralston Creek is a tributary of Clear Creek, approximately 32 miles (51 km) long, [2] in central Colorado in the United States. It drains a suburban and urban area of the northwestern Denver Metropolitan Area. It rises in the foothills in northeastern Gilpin County, in southern Golden Gate Canyon State Park.
The 49er miner, Alexander Andrews at Clear Creek diggings built the Horsetown Bridge near Reading’s bar to cross Clear Creek safely. Andrews wrote about his time Clear Creek diggings. He noted a good day of mining would get a miner about $100 a day in gold in 1853 ($3,987.00 in today's money), but prices of goods were also high.
The Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company began the first large-scale open pit mining in the district in 1994. [28] The Cresson mine open pits are located a few miles north of Victor. Mining continues today under the ownership of Newmont Corporation , which boosted gold production from 211,000 troy ounces (6.6 t) in 2014 to 451,000 troy ...
"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.
Clear Creek (Colorado), a tributary of the South Platte River and the cradle of the Colorado Gold Rush Clear Creek (Atlanta) , a tributary of Peachtree Creek running through Atlanta, Georgia Clear Creek (Eel River) , a stream in Indiana
Reading's Bar is a historical site in Redding, California in Shasta County.Reading's Bar is a California Historical Landmark No. 32 listed on August 1, 1932. [1] Reading's Bar was named after Major Pierson Barton Reading, who discovered gold on the Clear Creek bar in May 1848, starting a California Gold Rush in the surrounding area.
Gold pans and shovels are commonly allowed, but sluice boxes and suction dredges may be prohibited in some areas. [12] [13] There are public mining areas in many states, and prospecting may allow one to stake a gold placer claim or other type of mining claim in certain areas. Some public lands have been set aside for recreational gold panning.