Callahan District Western Mining History

Callahan is in south-central Siskiyou County in the upper Scott River region. During the early days there was considerable gold production from old bench gravels and gulches tributary to the river in the south portion of the district. The town was. named for M. B. Callahan, who established a store here in 1851.

The Callahan District is a gold mine located in Siskiyou county, California. Premium members have access to Google dynamic maps. Please consider becoming a member

Elevation: 3,100 Feet (945 Meters) Primary Mineral: Gold Lat, Long: 41.31278, -122.80056

It is a story arc that the forest service follows at other sites in a region the service describes as the Callahan Creek Historic Mining and Logging District. It is a very useful perspective on the town’s history, and not one that I pursued in 1984 when I explored this part of Lincoln County in the fieldwork for the state historic preservation plan.

Another Callahan mining district operation, the Bell Josephine, located six miles southwest of Callahan, covered 160 acres that included the earlier Abers, Carter, and old placer mines. A two-mile ...

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The district locations from this book have been added to the WMH Gold Explorer The Klamath River flows across the northern portion of the Klamath Mountain province. It enters the Klamath Mountains in the vicinity of Hornbrook, flowing southwest and then generally west for more than 50 miles, crossing a number of well-known mining districts.

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It is a story arc that the forest service follows at other sites in a region the service describes as the Callahan Creek Historic Mining and Logging District. It is a very useful perspective on the town’s history, and not one that I pursued in 1984 when I explored this part of Lincoln County in the fieldwork for the state historic preservation plan.

Callahan Mine, Brooksville, Blue Hill - Castine Mining District, Hancock Co., Maine, USA Chalcopyrite with bornite and pyrite in granular calcite from the 1970s era open pit operations of the Callahan Mine at Goose Pond, Cape Rosier, Brooksville, Maine.

Unnamed Cr occurrence [6], Smith Hill, Callahan Mining District (Scott River Mining District), Klamath Mountains, Siskiyou Co., California, USA : A reported Cr occurrence located in sec. 22, T41N, R9W, MDM, 5.1 km (3.2 miles) N of Smith Hill, along French Creek, a tributary of the Scott River. MRDS database stated accuracy for this location is ...

Slide Creek Placer Mine, Camp Eden, Callahan Mining District (Scott River Mining District), Klamath Mountains, Siskiyou Co., California, USA : A former placer Au-Ag mine located 3.4 km (2.1 miles) SSE of Camp Eden, on Blue Jay ridge, the divide between Slide Creek and the South Fork Scott River.

Welker Placer Mine, Schneider Hill, Callahan Mining District (Scott River Mining District), Klamath Mountains, Siskiyou Co., California, USA : A former placer Au-Ag mine located 3.3 km (2.1 miles) SE of Schneider Hill (coordinates of record), along Grouse Creek.

Porters Bar Dredging Company Mine, Callahan, Callahan Mining District (Scott River Mining District), Klamath Mountains, Siskiyou Co., California, USA : A former placer (dredge) Au mine located 2.7 km (8,800 feet) NNW of Callahan, along the Scott River (Scott Valley). Also located in the S½ sec. 6. NOTE: This locality is evidenced on the USGS topo ...

Mining Records - Lake County The digital records available here are scans of the literature originally found in DOGAMI published and unpublished hardcopy holdings. Scans have been combined into single PDFs that may include maps, letters, news clippings, photographs, and reports.

01-06-2013· We say we are the most important mining district not just in Western North Carolina, not just in North Carolina, but in the United States and in the world.” “It just happens that when the rock (quartz) was formed, Mother Nature gave it the properties that the industry needs,” said Robert Mensah-Biney, director N.C. State University Minerals Research Laboratory in Asheville.

Prospecting and mining within the Chandalar gold district date back to the early 1900’s. Early exploration delineated rich placer gold deposits that created a small rush to the district. This was followed later by multiple discoveries of auriferous quartz-sulfide prospects, including four gold veins which are considered to be the source of the alluvial deposits.

Frank M. Canton, aka: Joe Horner (1849-1927) – Cowboy and outlaw, Canton eventually became a respected and honest lawman.. John Carlton (1837-1887) – U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas. He was killed in the line of duty on November 5, 1887. Carlton was born about 1837 and resided at Searcy, Arkansas.

Slide Creek Placer Mine, Camp Eden, Callahan Mining District (Scott River Mining District), Klamath Mountains, Siskiyou Co., California, USA : A former placer Au-Ag mine located 3.4 km (2.1 miles) SSE of Camp Eden, on Blue Jay ridge, the divide between Slide Creek and the South Fork Scott River.

Porters Bar Dredging Company Mine, Callahan, Callahan Mining District (Scott River Mining District), Klamath Mountains, Siskiyou Co., California, USA : A former placer (dredge) Au mine located 2.7 km (8,800 feet) NNW of Callahan, along the Scott River (Scott Valley). Also located in the S½ sec. 6. NOTE: This locality is evidenced on the USGS topo ...

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Mining Records - Lake County The digital records available here are scans of the literature originally found in DOGAMI published and unpublished hardcopy holdings. Scans have been combined into single PDFs that may include maps, letters, news clippings, photographs, and reports.

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Frank M. Canton, aka: Joe Horner (1849-1927) – Cowboy and outlaw, Canton eventually became a respected and honest lawman.. John Carlton (1837-1887) – U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas. He was killed in the line of duty on November 5, 1887. Carlton was born about 1837 and resided at Searcy, Arkansas.

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History. While the Pilbara iron ore deposits were known, such as the Mount Whaleback deposit discovered in 1957 by Stan Hilditch, it was not until 1960, when the Australian Government lifted the embargo on iron ore exports that it had put in place because of concerns the mineral was in short supply, that mining began in earnest. Up until the mid-1960s, iron ore production in Western Australia ...