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…
Category: Mines of El Dorado County
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…