The Miller mine was a chromite mine located one and one-half miles northwest of the town of Clarksville, near the Walker and Joerger mines. The deposit consisted of small amounts of layered chromite, however, there are no separate production records…
Category: Mines of El Dorado County
Mines of El Dorado County: “N”
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…
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…