History & Geology
When Legends Were Made and Fortunes Found
August 2011 by Roger O. Walker
Sylvester Smith and his younger brother Nathan were among this group who rode and led their Indian ponies, while climbing the rugged Salmon River breaks and rockhewn mountains, looking for a path that would lead them up and over the uncharted wilderness.Conrey Dredge No. 4
The large buckets were favorable for the type of ground worked. The gravel was tenacious and compact, due to the existence of irregular pockets of clay.
Prospecting for Pegmatites

Associated Gold Placers of the Comstock

Mining Pegmatite Deposits
With successively lower temperatures as the water mixture cools, new sets of minerals are formed and many of those stable at a higher degree of heat became subject to alteration as the temperature progressively moved lower.
Gold Placers of the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Gold in the San Francisco District Oatman, Mohave County, Arizona

Sierra County Gold—Part II

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