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Lost Grass Valley Gold Rush History of the Wilhelm & Binkleman Pioneer Families by Waldo C.F. Potter (2024) (374 pages)
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This Pennsylvania Mine free gold in quartz ore family heirloom sample is particularly rich in gold. It
weighs 70.5 grams, or 2.27 Troy ounces.
The north drift in the Pennsylvania
mine, on Tuesday, opened on a fine
vein of ore two feet in width, which
showed well in free gold. This is the
most Important development yet made
inthe mine, and all interested feel
greatly encouraged.
March 22, 1888, Grass Valley Morning Union. The first mention of the Pennsylvania Mine mining a fine,
large quartz/gold two-feet-in-width vein with “free gold.”
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