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…
Mines of El Dorado County: “Q” and “R” (Part 1)
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…
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…