Gold Ledge Presents Books on CD (or print) Report of the State Mineralogist Year Ending December 1, 1889 California State Mining Bureau 352 pages 57 photos and illustrations 24 chapters and an index Adobe Acrobat PDF format Version 4.0 Runs on Windows 95 and higher Covers the mining industry of California for the year of 1889, including descriptions of mining activities and workings, geologic observations, and photos and illustrations contemporary to the late 1800s. View the Table of Contents.

Use of a pan in gold mining, 1889.

Description:
This official State of California publication describes mining when the industry was still young and primarily belonged to the individual prospector.

The 24 chapters and index are presented on this CD-ROM in the Adobe Acrobat PDF format, and can be searched by any key word of your choice.

In this publication, recreational prospectors can find a multitude of leads to potential gold bearing areas. Included are chapters describing mining activities in the counties of Santa Clara, San Bernardino and Los Angeles, among others, as well as detailed tables of mining data.

This book also includes historical photos and detailed descriptions of processes including the refining of gold and silver, the making of coins, and river mining .

Those with an interest in the historical aspects of mining and early California will also find this to be a gold mine of information on subjects as varied as glass-making, pottery, native plants and fossils, and also contains extensive weather data of the period.

Excerpts:
Refining and Coining of the Precious Metals
River Mining

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