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Placer Mining for Gold in California

by Charles Volney Averill

State of California Division of Mines, 1946

371 Pages

This is extremely Rare and hard to find publication is the Definative publication on Placer Mining in California. Every major placer area in the state is discussed along with hundreds you have never heard of. Book gives history and production of each area, who discovered, periods up until 1947 when they were worked, methods used to work them, ie. Hand, Dredging, Hydraulicing, sluicing etc. How much gold was produced from the area etc. If there is one book on placer mining in California to own then this is the one.

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