Category: Mines & Mills
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Stewart Mill
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Read more: Stewart MillStewart’s Reduction Works Uniface Exhibition Silver Ingot Stewart’s Reduction Works, Georgetown A uniface ingot that reads: 4.7. OZ. SILVER / 834. FINE. COIN. $5.07 / STEWARTS. REDUCTION / WORKS. GEORGETOWN / COLORADO. An exhibition ingot for a mill product from the Stewart Mill near Georgetown. The Stewart Mill was built in the mid 1870s, and…
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International Mill
Read more: International Mill3.60 oz International Mill Silver Ingot. Clear Creek County, Colorado, ca. 1870, Face Value: $3.91 A crisp, trapezoidal ingot with imprints on two long sides. One side reads: INT. MILL. Oz 3.60, and the other long side is imprinted with S841F. $3.91. The surfaces are moderately toned.The International Mill was an operation in Clear Creek County…
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Daniel G. Tipton, Panamint Ingots
Read more: Daniel G. Tipton, Panamint IngotsPair of two silver presentation ingots. One is engraved Little Chief / Panamint / D. G. T. The other is engraved Hudson River / Panamint / D. G. T. Both measure 1.25″ long x .75″ wide x 5/16″ thick. The Daniel G. Tipton Panamint, California Silver Ingots -From the Hudson River and Little Chief Mines,…
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Chico Ledge
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Read more: Chico Ledge5.50 oz Chico Ledge Exhibition Ingot From the Chico Ledge. 5.50 ounces, 991 fine, $7.05. Chico Ledge, Echo District, Humboldt County, NT, circa 1863. There are three different mines carrying the Chico name in the western U.S. through about 1873. One is in Arizona, and another in New Mexico, but both are principally gold mines.…
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Candelaria Mine
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Read more: Candelaria MineThe history of the mine is an interesting one besides being a long and heart wrenching one. The mine was first located in 1783 by Juan Jose Zambrano, who was a storekeeper. The mine was near San Dimas, a small town “on the Guarisamé River” [Paulsen, 1981, 245]. Zambrano “built three tunnels to facilitate removal…
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Amie and Climax Mine
Read more: Amie and Climax Mine5.31 oz Jonathan Head, Amie and Climax Mine, Leadville Silver Ingot, CO – Leadville c1880 – “Presented to Jonathan Head by his friend John Gerians, foreman of the Amie and Climax mines.” “Leadville silver”. Size: 2” x 1” x 0.5”. Weight: 5.31 troy oz. The Amie and Climax mines are located on Fryer Hill at…
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Ontario Silver Mining Co.
Read more: Ontario Silver Mining Co.20.50 oz UT,Salt Lake City-,Ontario Silver Mining Co. of Park City, Utah, and Elias Morris of Salt Lake City – 1876-1882 This silver ingot measures 3.0” x 1.4” x 1.1” and weighs 20.60 troy oz. It has a highly polished front side on which is engraved: Ontario S. M. Co., To Elias Morris in recognition…
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Sweetwater Mining Co.
Read more: Sweetwater Mining Co.c1883-1887 – The Sweetwater Mining Company silver ingot comes to us from the Western Collections of Richard Gooding, a major collector in Texas, who passed away a number of years ago. He had major collections of guns, Wells Fargo, and mining ephemera, all now long disbursed except the ingots, which were retained by the family…
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Eureka Consolidated
Read more: Eureka Consolidated2.56 oz Eureka Consolidated Silver Ingot Eureka, Nevada, ca. 1873-1885. The top side reads 2.56 OZ / GOLD 004 FINE / (S)ILVER 978 FIN(E) / GOLD $0.21 / SILVER $3.23. The top, long side has a EUREKA stamp and the adjacent short side to the right has the abbreviation CON.This is an exhibition ingot, used…