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| Photo ID: |
C7410 |
| Mine: |
Oroville Gold Dredging Company |
| County: |
Butte |
| Photographer/Source: |
Unknown |
| Date: |
1901 |
| Description: |
Marion steam shovel dredge of the Oroville Gold Dredging Company on the
Feather River near Oroville. Tailings in the background. |
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| Photo ID: |
A0394D |
| Mine: |
Kendon Pit |
| County: |
Mono |
| Photographer/Source: |
Whitney, C.W. |
| Date: |
1930 |
| Description: |
Woman using a rocker at a placer mine. |
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| Photo ID: |
A5188 |
| Mine: |
Empire |
| County: |
Nevada |
| Photographer/Source: |
G.W. Starr Collection |
| Date: |
1900 |
| Description: |
Typical Cornish miner. |
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| Photo ID: |
C3504 |
| Mine: |
Empire |
| County: |
Nevada |
| Photographer/Source: |
G.W. Starr Collection |
| Date: |
1900 |
| Description: |
Miners underground, advancing the drift. |
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| Photo ID: |
A7195 |
| Mine: |
North Bloomfield (Malakoff Diggins) |
| County: |
Nevada |
| Photographer/Source: |
Watkins Photo-Bancroft Neg. #8111 |
| Date: |
1890 |
| Description: |
Piping four streams from monitors (giants), with aggregate discharge of
2,500 miner's inches at a hydraulic mine. Material is washed through bedrock cuts to the
sluices which are not visible. Previously published in Annual Report of the State
Mineralogist, v 10, p. 122. |
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| Photo ID: |
A3282 |
| Mine: |
Auburn Ravine |
| County: |
Placer |
| Photographer/Source: |
Courtesy of California State Library |
| Date: |
1852 |
| Description: |
Miners sluicing at head of Auburn Ravine. Daguerrotype from the DMG
Collection on permanent loan to the California State Library. |
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| Photo ID: |
A4322 |
| Mine: |
Rocky Bar or Estey |
| County: |
Placer |
| Photographer/Source: |
Unknown |
| Date: |
1915 |
| Description: |
Diver standing next to a woman and recovering gold from deep pools in
the bed of the North Fork of the American River, east of Colfax. This is an example of
placer mining. |
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