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• Western Mining History

  Western Mining History Mining Regions of the Western United States The image above illustrates the incredible scale of the mining regions of the western United States. Yellow dots are gold mines, blac...

• Premium Mine Data – Western Mining History

  Premium Mine Data The WMH downloadable mine data consists of KMZ and CSV data files for use with navigation devices, Google Earth, or for research purposes. The data source is the USGS MRDS database a...

• Winning the Metal: Ore Mills of the West – Western Mining History

  Article By Gary Carter. Photos sourced by Western Mining History. Numerous articles and books have described the techniques to extract valuable metals from waste rock. One of the best books on the sub...

• The Top Ten Historic Mining Towns You Should Visit Today – Western Mining History

  The Top Ten Historic Mining Towns You Should Visit Today The various gold and silver rushes in the West were the primary factor in the initial settlement of the western states. Thousands of mining cam...

• Mining History Library – Western Mining History

  "It is a wonderful thing," said the prospector to his burro, "what strange ideas the masses of the people have regarding the source of gold and silver. I have conversed with eastern tenderfeet on this...

• Mining Town Archive – Western Mining History

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