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Archive of the Belshazzar Mine, Idaho Gold Mining Company, Placerville Idaho, 1920s. [132775]

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Archive of the Belshazzar Mine, Idaho Gold Mining Company, Placerville Idaho, 1920s.  [132775]
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Archive of 150 or more documents circa 1926 to 1939 regarding almost all aspects of mind production at the Belshazzar mine. This mine processed high-grade gold silver in the late 1920s. The group includes important correspondence, shipping receipts to US smelting and refining in Salt Lake City, internal letters about the possibility of theft in the hiring of a private detective, and much interesting correspondence. One shipment showed 2.38 ounces per ton gold and 15.6 ounces per ton silver in a shipment of 60,000 pounds sent to Salt Lake City. They were paid $50.73 per ton, and it took them about 20 days to mine this quantity. It appears company officers attempted to purchase equipment to do their own milling in the late 1920s. The archive ends about the time of the great 1929 market crash. This archive also importantly has a report by Victoria Mitchell of the Idaho geologic survey from 2008 describing in text the history of the mine and the geology as well as many photographs accompanying the report. A very nice archive from an important Idaho mind active just prior to the 1929 market crash.

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