Gold Dredging


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The Conrey Placer Mining Company


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This historic mining company experimented with massive equipment and innovative techniques to dig millions of dollars in gold out of Alder Gulch.










Letter, Chicago


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Cover letter from the president of Mexico Gold Fields Co. for a company publication entitled Placer mining with steam shovel and dredge (1905). The letter explains the book and encourages investment in the Mexico Gold Fields Co. The letter is accompanied by three newspaper clippings about gold mining in California. The four items were originally laid in and relocated from Placer mining with steam shovel and dredge (RARE TN424.M6 P53 1905).










A History of Gold Dredging in Idaho


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"A revolution in placer mining from inception in the 1880s until its demise in the 1960s and its impact on Idaho, the nation's fourth leading producer of dredged gold which provides a lens through which to observe the practice and history of gold dredging around the world"--




Foundry


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