Featured Mining Town: Virginia City, Montana
Virginia City, Montana is one of the West's richest and most notorious historic gold camps. In the five years after the first gold discovery an estimated $30-$40 million in gold was recovered here. Also abundant were the murders by road agents, with around 100 travelers killed between 1863 and 1864. Continue Reading
Featured Mining Town: Victor, Colorado
Victor, Colorado was known as the Cripple Creek district's "City of Mines". One third of all the gold mined in the district came from the mines at Victor. Continue Reading
Where to Find Gold in California
With over 22,000 historical mine locations in the USGS MRDS database of mines, California has more gold mines that the next top four gold states combined. California was also the largest gold producing state up to 1965 with over 100 million ounces produced. In recent decades other states have overtaken California in total gold production, Continue Reading
Where to Find Gold in Arizona
WMH Gold Maps for Google Earth Pro are designed to locate areas with high potential for finding placer gold. One feature of these maps is the highlighting of townships that contain both active placer mining claims and historical gold mines. The screenshot above is from the Arizona Gold Map and shows gold-bearing PLSS townships roughly Continue Reading
Featured Mining Town: Weaverville, California
Weaverville was the primary settlement in Trinity Alps region of Northern California. Settled in 1850, Weaverville was a significant placer mining town with thousands of residents, including over 1,000 Chinese. Today the town is home to numerous 1850s era historic buildings and California's oldest Chinese house of worship. Continue Reading
Introducing the WMH Mines Explorer Pro
The Western Mining History Mines Explorer Pro is an interactive map that displays over 116,000 mines from the USGS MRDS database, lode and placer claims by PLSS section centers, mining towns, and mining district information. The Mines Explorer Pro is available to Mines level premium members. Members: click here to access the Mines Explorer Pro Continue Reading
