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Locations beginning with K
One of a dozen or so gold mines located at Hite’s
Cove. Exact location not
determined.
This hard rock gold mine was located
directly on the Mother Lode vein system.
Location not determined.
KID SAXON MINE
...SEE Schroeder
Mine.
…also SEE the
Whitlock
Mining District for a list of the mines in that mining district.
KING & HARBOR’S SAWMILL (#1)
This 1852 era sawmill
was one of the earliest in the county, and was located along Saxton
Creek in Saxton Gulch in the Whitlock
Mining District.
KING & HARBOR’S SAWMILL (#2)
In 1853, KING & HARBOR
built their second sawmill. This time it was along Sherlock Creek.
KING MIDAS MINE
This hard rock gold mine was located just
north of
...SEE Schroeder
Mine.
…also SEE the
Whitlock
Mining District for a list of the mines in that mining district.
Located at Bear
Creek (#1), which is near Midpines, southeast
of Briceburg.
Actual location not determined, but it was in the Whitlock
Mining District.
KING SOLOMON MINE (#2)
One of several mines in
the Jerseydale Mining District (which was east of Mid
Pines). Actual
location not determined. Could these two King Solomon mines be the same? (GBS)
...SEE
Kinsley (below)
AKA – Kingsley
This gold mining camp
was part of the Kinsley Mining District, and had a post office between 1896 and
1928. The name of the Post Office was
misspelled KINGSLEY. It was located where the
In Bulletin 193 (Gold Districts of
California) the California Division of Mines & Geology groups a
number of smaller mining districts into this one district. Located along Bull Creek
and the North Fork of Merced River about 16 AIR miles north of Mariposa, and 12
AIR miles east of Coulterville.
Placer mining began in the 1850s, but switched to hard rock mining from
the 1860s-1900, and again in the 1930s.
See more details
of the mines, smaller mining districts and other locations included in the
Kinsley Mining District by clicking on the appropriate links.
·
ARGO
MINE …Greeley Hill Mining District
·
BANDARITA
MINE …Greeley Hill Mining District
·
CHEROKEE
MINE …Greeley Hill Mining District
·
COWARD MINE
…SEE Hasloe Mine
·
CRANBERRY
MINE (#2)
·
DOGTOWN
·
GENTRY
GULCH MINE …Greeley Hill Mining District
·
GENTRY
GULCH (MINING DISTRICT)
·
GREELEY
HILL MINING DISTRICT (includes a list of mines)
·
HASLOE
MINE …Greeley
Hill Mining District
·
INDIAN
GULCH (#2)
·
LOUISIANA
MINE …Greeley
Hill Mining District
·
LOVELY
·
MARBLE
SPRINGS MINE …Greeley
Hill Mining District
·
RED
CLOUD MINE …Greeley Hill Mining District
·
·
SHIMER MINE
…SEE Cherokee Mine
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