The Nail mine was a lode gold mine three miles northeast of Fair Play near the heavily mined Slug Gulch area. The Nancy Lee mine was a lode gold mine on the western branch of the Mother Lode, one mile…
Month: May 2012
Mines of El Dorado County: “O”
The Oak mine was a lode gold mine located one mile northeast of Omo Ranch. I was active in 1894 when a one to four-foot vein of gold-bearing quartz in granite was developed by a two adits, one 400 feet…
Mines of El Dorado County: “P” (Part 1)
The Pacific Channel (Zimmerman) mine was a placer gold mine one-half mile west of Pacific House. From around 1915 through the early 1920s, an ancient channel of the South Fork of the American River, lying on granite bedrock and capped…
Mines of El Dorado County: “P” (Part 2)
Three miles east of Pilot hill was the Pioneer Copper, Gold and Silver (Pioneer-Lilyama, Little Emma, Volo) mine. This multi-ore mine, located on 20.65 acres, was a consolidation of the Pioneer and Lilyama mines which were originally worked in the…