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John Augustus Sutter (February 23, 1803 - June 18, 1880), born Johann August Sutter and known in Spanish as Don Juan Sutter, was a Swiss immigrant of Mexican and American citizenship, known for establishing Sutter's Fort in the area that would eventually become Sacramento, California, the state's capital. Although he became famous following the discovery of gold by his employee James W ...
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Sutter Gold Mining Inc. (TSXV:SGM,OTCQX:SGMNF) yesterday announced plans to put its California-based Lincoln mine project on care and maintenance. Though the mill has processed about 1,000 tons of ...
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Sutter's Mill—Where Gold was First Discovered. The accompanying illustration will call to the minds of pioneers of California, many pleasant reminiscences of those favored and long to-be-remembered days, the days of "49." ... From that time to the present the place has experienced the usual vicissitudes incident to a mining camp where tho ...
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Specialties: Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park is a state park of California, United States, marking the discovery of gold by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in 1848, sparking the California Gold Rush. At the park you can walk through the museum, take a gold discovery tour, see the historic houses, and even try your luck at gold panning! Established in 1962. Marshall Gold ...
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John Sutter, in full John Augustus Sutter, original name Johann August Suter, (born February 15, 1803, Kandern, Baden [Germany]—died June 18, 1880, Washington, D.C.), German-born Swiss pioneer settler and colonizer in California. Discovery of gold on his land in 1848 precipitated the California Gold Rush. Sutter spent much of his early life in Switzerland; he was a Swiss citizen and served ...
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A former placer Au occurrence/mine located in secs. 17 & 18, T11N, R10E, MDM, 1.0 km (0.6 mile) WNW of the old Sutter Mill gold discovery site and 1.3 km (0.8 mile) NW of Coloma, along the South Fork American River. Site starts approximately at the Sutter Mill site and extends downstream through the ox-bow curve in the river.
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Find out information about Sutters Mill. where James Marshall discovered California gold . See: Discovery site of first strike precipitating Gold Rush. See: Treasure Allusions—Cultural, Literary,...
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John Sutter in full John Augustus Sutter original name Johann August Suter (born February 15 1803 Kandern Baden —died June 18 1880 Washington D.C.) ... Discovery of gold on his land in 1848 precipitated the California Gold Rush. California Gold Rush. The prison's origins date to the California Gold Rush a period that roughly spanned ...
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In gold mining, if we don't develop the mine, work getting out the gold, we lose it. In our other positions in life, the same thing holds true. ... In 1848, the news of Marshall's discovering gold at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California led to the gold rush of 1849. Strategically, reacting to general news is a poor choice, but it is a ...
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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Oct 10, 2012) - Sutter Gold Mining Inc. (TSX VENTURE:SGM)() ("Sutter" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that underground development is well underway at its Lincoln Mine Project in the heart of California''s Mother Lode gold belt.The project is on track for gold production in the fourth quarter of this year, ramping up to full production in the ...
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Sutter's Mill was a sawmill owned by 19th-century pioneer John Sutter in partnership with James W. Marshall. It was located in Coloma, California, at the bank of the South Fork American River. Sutter's Mill is most famous for its association with the California Gold Rush. On January 24, 1848, Marshall found several flakes of gold that began the transformation of California to a bustling center ...
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Find the perfect bonanza gold mine stock photo. Huge collection, amazing choice, 100+ million high quality, affordable RF and RM images. No need to register, buy now! Lightboxes ; ... Sutter's Mill sight of the California Gold Strike, Marshall State Park Force of gold miners working on W.M. Cowley´s claim 22 above Bonanza, Klondike, Alaska ...
Get priceMining timeline • January 24, 1848: James Marshall discovers gold at Sutter's Mill • February 2, 1848: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo • December 1848: President Polk confirms discovery to Congress • 1849: the rush (1849-52): East coast, Mexico, Peru, Chile, France, China - ^CA Pop: 1848 - 14,000 > 1852 - 225,000 (95% of migrants = men) • 1850: California made 31 st state ...
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The Sutter's Mill meteorite turns out to be a rare, carbon-rich type known as a carbonaceous chondrite. Its insides are a jumble of different primitive space materials mashed together in a single...
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The California Gold Rush lasted seven tumultuous years, as 300,000 people flooded the previously quiet territory to unearth over 12 million ounces of gold, currently valued at $17 billion dollars. The owner of Sutter's Mill, John Sutter, wanted to keep the news quiet. His sawmill was in a richly forested region, and was well positioned to ...
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A stamp mill is a large mechanical device used to crush ore and extract the desired metals from the host material. It uses heavy steel stamps to crush and break apart material, releasing the valuable gold from worthless rock, allowing for the extraction of gold for further refining. The basic design of a stamp mill has been used for thousands ...
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California Gold Rush, rapid influx of fortune seekers in California that began after gold was found at Sutter's Mill in early 1848 and reached its peak in 1852. According to estimates, more than 300,000 people came to the territory during the Gold Rush. In 1848 John Sutter was having a water-powered sawmill built along the American River in Coloma, California, approximately 50 miles (80 km ...
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The Stanley-Miller Mine is located high above the cliffs of the East Fork, about a mile beyond the Bridge To Nowhere. Perched on a small plateau are the ruins of the old Stanley-Miller cabin. Reaching it is difficult, to say the least.
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GOLD RUSH OF 1849 On January 24, 1848 a New Jersey prospector James Marshall discovered gold on the American River in northern California, while he was working on a sawmill owned by John Sutter. When news of the discovery leaked out, there was a mass migration to California, and in subsequent years a fortune in gold was mined.
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The Knight Foundry, set in the heart of Sutter Creek, California, is America's last water-powered foundry and machine shop. Established in 1873 by Knight, this extraordinary facility includes the unique historic equipment and machinery, still in place in its original context, just as it was during its Gold Rush-era heyday.
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Most work has stopped and nonessential workers have been laid off at the mine in Amador County, about 50 miles southeast of Sacramento, Sutter Gold Mining Inc. said in a statement. About 1,000 ...
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James Marshall's discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in California in 1848, started the California Gold Rush. Born in 1810, Marshall followed in his father's footsteps by becoming a skilled carpenter and wheelwright. When his father died in 1834, he headed westward, spending some time in Illinois and Indiana before settling in Missouri.
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Sutter's mill, of course, had become a veritable magnet for prospectors armed with picks and shovels and $1 iron pans that had cost them as much a $20 each. Since the first discovery of gold had occurred on Sutter soil, a sort of reasonless logic told the gold seekers the mill and the surrounding area must contain the very lodestone of this ...
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It started innocently enough on September 11, 2012 at the Museum dedicated to Sutter's Mill and the discovery of gold in California. Gold was discovered in 1848 and attracted large numbers of prospectors in 1849, giving rise to the term 49'ers for those seeking their fortunes in gold.
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John Sutter (born Johann August Suter; February 23, 1803-June 18, 1880) was a Swiss immigrant in California whose sawmill was the launching spot for the California Gold Rush. Sutter was a prosperous pioneer and land baron when one of his sawmill workers found a nugget of gold at the mill, on January 24, 1848.
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Sutter's Mother Lode May Still Hold $900M. NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! More than 150 years ago, John Sutter touched off the fabled Gold Rush when he found gold near his mill in ...
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The Upper and Lower Gold Mines map is not to scale. It uses Sutter's Fort as the base for distances to the lower mines (Mormon Island) and the upper mines near Coloma. The Sinclair house, northeast of Sutter's Fort on the north side of the American River in the Rancho Del Paso Mexican land grant is shown.
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Sutter Gold Sutter currently holds a number of precious metals properties in California, USA, including the permitted Lincoln underground mine near Sutter Creek, California, as well as a new, permitted processing facility, located near the entrance to the Lincoln Mine.
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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - April 4, 2012) - Sutter Gold Mining Inc. (TSX VENTURE:SGM.V - News)(OTCQX:SGMNF.PK - News) ("Sutter" or "the Company") is pleased to provide an update regarding the development of its Lincoln Mine Project in the heart of California's Mother Lode gold belt. "We are making headway on a number of important fronts," said Leanne Baker, President & CEO of ...
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In 1848, James Marshall found gold at Sutter's Mill, Coloma, which started the California Gold Rush. Exhaustion of placer deposits gave rise to hard rock mining (quartz mining) in 1849, and three years later hydraulic mining of placer gold started.
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One remarkable manuscript consists of a bill of sale whereby a slave imported by his Southern master to hunt for gold buys his freedom for $1,000. Within a couple years after the discovery miners extracted gold from the earth by working in teams and then by forming companies.
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Gold was initially found by Spanish prospectors along the Colorado River between 1775 and 1780, but it was the later discovery of the precious metal at Sutter's Mill in 1848 that produced one of the most important events in the history of the western US and led to a major gold rush that enveloped California with thousands of prospectors and merchants swarming to the Californian gold fields ...
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Founded and active in the 1880's. 10 stamp mill and a 640' shaft. Re-opened 1921 till 1929. 20 stamp mill and a 2,291' incline shaft. Tailing dam north to Raley's. Produced $564,624 in gold. Nearby Mines: South Jackson, Fern, Kearsling, Hubbard, Aetna an.
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California is famous for its mineral wealth dating back to the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in Coloma 1848. This mineral wealth resulted in the exploration and development of gold mines in the Mother Lode and across California for many minerals. Prior to the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act of 1975, mines were not required to be ...
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Gold from Sutter's Mill, 1848. In grade school, children have heard the story of gold being discovered at Sutter's mill. Depictions of it often feature a large, fist sized nugget. ... Get mining current events, tutorials, and points of interest from our news site. Or, visit our main site to search millions of mining claim records for free.
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By the 1880's "The New Gold Hill Ltd. Mining Co." was established in London, England. The company purchased holdings at Gold Hill and produced equal amounts of gold for another twenty years at considerable profits. The Gold Hill mines ceased production by 1915. Explorations were made again in 1950 but at that time proved to be too costly.
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The California Gold Rush began at Sutter's Mill, near Coloma. On January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall, a foreman working for Sacramento pioneer John Sutter, found shiny metal in the tailrace of a lumber mill Marshall was building for Sutter on the American River. Marshall brought what he found to John Sutter, and the two privately tested the ...
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The California Gold Rush took place between 1848 and 1855. During this time gold was discovered in California. Over 300,000 people rushed to California to find gold and "strike it rich". Gold was first discovered in California by James Marshall at Sutter's Mill near the city of Coloma. James was building a sawmill for John Sutter when he found ...
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