Placer Mining for Gold in California [State of California, Department of Natural Resources, Division of Mines, Bulletin 135]
by Averill, Charles Volney
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0896320111
- ISBN 13
- 9780896320116
- Seller
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Lake Elsinore, California, United States
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About This Item
del oeste press. Very Good. 1981. Hardcover. 0896320111 . Appearance of only slight previous use. Book is cocked no JD. "This report shows that hand placering gold is a vanishing frontier enterprise from which it is now next to impossible to extract a living. Soon after the depression set in thousands of unemployed with their families attempted small-scale placer mining as a source of livelihood. During the early years of the rush to the creeks the number of would-be miners who had been successful in recovering an amount sufficient for even one sale." ; 8vo ; 357 pp pages .
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- E Ridge fine Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6032
- Title
- Placer Mining for Gold in California [State of California, Department of Natural Resources, Division of Mines, Bulletin 135]
- Author
- Averill, Charles Volney
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0896320111
- ISBN 13
- 9780896320116
- Publisher
- del oeste press
- Place of Publication
- Tarzana, California
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- prospecting, gold, mining
- Bookseller catalogs
- Prospecting & Rock Collecting;
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