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Bishop Creek Gold Company Stock Certificate Group [158094]

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Mining Start Price:10.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 400.00 USD
Bishop Creek Gold Company Stock Certificate Group [158094]
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This item SOLD at 2023 Mar 19 @ 12:17UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Lot of 6 issued stocks, 1909-10. Inc. in Arizona. Orange border, black print, and eagle vignette. Signed by president Wm. McReynolds and the treasurer. Punch cancelled. Folds. Rare group. District is on east side of Sierra Nevada mountains in northwestern Inyo County, approx. 15 miles southwest of Bishop. Principal source of gold in the district has been the Cardinal or Wilshire-Bishop Creek mine, in production during 1900's and from 1933 to 1938. Estimated total production of more than $1 million. Ore deposits occur in a zone of quartzite enclosed in granitic rocks. There are bodies up to 8' thick and contain fine free gold and fairly abundant pyrite, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite and arsenopyrite. Deposits developed to a depth of 600'.

Date: 1909-10
Country (if not USA):
State: California
City: Inyo County
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