Three miles northwest of Slate Mountain (southeast of Georgetown) was the Slate Mountain mine, a lode gold mine. It was active intermittently from 1921 to 1941 and again in 1951. A one and one-half to six foot-wide vein of gold-bearing…
Category: Mines of El Dorado County
Mines of El Dorado County: “S” (Part 3)
The Staples and Co. mine was a 60 acre placer gold mine one and one-half miles northwest of Fair Play on Perry Creek. The Starbuck mine was a placer gold (not coffee) mine two miles northwest of Rescue. A deposit…
Mines of El Dorado County: “T”
The Table Rock mine was a placer gold mine consisting of 11.27 acres on the north side of the South Fork of the American River, two miles north of Placerville on the south side of Rock Creek Road. There were…
Mines of El Dorado County: “U” – “V”
The somewhat mysterious Umatilla mine, which was owned by C.J. Gardner in 1898, was a placer gold, drift mine listed in most publications as being 12 miles northeast of Plymouth (Amador County). That puts it close to the town of…