The Quail mine was a placer mine on 40 acres one mile northwest of Indian Diggings. The Quail Consolidated mine was a lode gold mine consisting of two claims totaling 77.154 acres of the Mother Lode two miles south of…
Month: May 2012
Mines of El Dorado County: “R” (Part 2)
Three miles southeast of Placerville, at Texas Hill, was a placer gold, drift mine known as the Rising Hope mine. Located on a claim somewhere between 100 and 228 acres in size, depending upon the date of the report, it…
Mines of El Dorado County: “S” (Part 1)
The Sailor Flat and Irish Creek mine was a 160 acre placer gold mine one and one-half miles south of Garden Valley. Two miles north of Georgetown, in the Georgia Slide area, was a 29.66 acre placer gold mine known…
Mines of El Dorado County: “S” (Part 2)
Three miles northwest of Slate Mountain (southeast of Georgetown) was the Slate Mountain mine, a lode gold mine. It was active intermittently from 1921 to 1941 and again in 1951. A one and one-half to six foot-wide vein of gold-bearing…