Hauntingly Good Timed Auction, October 2023

Lot of three.1) 1933 University of Arizona Bulletin. Bureau of Mines. Titled Arizona Gold Placer and Placering. Written by GM Butler. 148 pages. 14 p

Calumet and Arizona Mining Co. safety rules booklet for the prevention of accidents, miner guide pamphlet.5.75x4", creased cover. Arizona

1968 reprint of 1865 Arizona letter to the Editor of the New York Tribune by Hon. Richard C. McCormick. He outlines the advantage of the counties and

Two page letter signed by James W. McCullough, who wants to talk to a Pittsburgh banker about a gold mine 16 miles from Summit Station. We think this

Lot of 19. Mostly borderless. Post marks: Dutch Flat, San Fran. Colfax,. Street level view: street senes from horse and buggy to cars, hydrauli

A RARE find. This is a January 7, 1884 opinion with regards debris caused from hydraulic mining from The North Bloomfield, Liberty Hill, Gold Run &...

Crowd examining gold float found on Main St Hart, Cal. Feb7,1908. This divided back card is also imprinted " After March 1, 1908. This space ...

Kennedy Mine, Jackson, California gold bullion memorandums (13) issued by Selby Smelting & Lead Company. All in nice condition. Please see phot...

About 25 unused c. 1870's Bank of La Porte checks. 1 check is used to prove is La Porte, California from a Kansas City printer, which is odd. A...

2 c. 1877 Bank of La Porte checks to United Working Union. Rare evidence of labor union donations at the time. California La Porte

5 c. 1877-78 Bank of La Porte checks issued to W H Knight with signatures on verso. Knight was the first publisher of Western regional businesses in 4

About 50 Bank of La Porte checks, c. 1884. No RN, but classic mining vignette on left side. California La Porte

Payroll list for the Newtown Mine Company. Once the Union Mine in the Cerro Gordo District. The mine name changed after it changed hands in 1890. This

Lot of 16. Three RPC's. Mostly borderless. Postmarks: Marysville, Hammonton, Minneapolis MN, Marion OH. , one 1 cent Franklin stamp does not...

A letter from Attorney Fred Searls of Nevada City, father of Fred Searls Jr. one of the prominent geologists and mining experts of the mid 1900s. Plea

Prospectus and 1903 cover letter and cover for Eddy Mine in Nevada City, CA. California Nevada City

Assortment of mine receipts and payroll slip, all handwritten in the 1880s. Great collection starter. See photos for more details. California Nev

Nevada, The Banner Gold County of California booklet, undated. Lots of mine and area photos. 6.75x5". Cover and next page detached, staple rust...

A group of 14 photos showing placer mining in Nevada County, California accompanied by a letter of proposal from The California Placer Mines Company t

Lot of six. 1) Placer Land Company lettersheet with attached hand drawn map of railroad route. 2) Geologic Map of Iowa Hill Mining District. Color. 20

Various letters from Pacific Coast Gold Mines to Angels Iron Works regarding equipment. Company owned mines at Quartz, south of Jamestown in Tuolumne

Lot of 10. One RPC. Postmarks : Redding, Philomath, Ore., Fort Jones Cal.. Ground level view: Redding-Weaverville Stage 1905, gold dredger Sacto Riv

First Annual Catalogue of the State Museum of California of collections made by the State Mining Bureau, Henry G. Hanks State Mineralogist. This cover

Three books, including Mining History in America, by Fred Holabird, published 1998, softcover, Anatomy of an Ingot, by Paul Franklin published 2012, h

Billhead for R. R. & J. Craig Hydraulic Mining Nozzles, located at 240 Montgomery Street, San Francisco. It's dated May 6, 1874 and in great...

Mine letterheads include Hidden Treasure Gravel Mining Company (2), Excelsior Hydraulic Mining Company and Mike Corcoran Placer Mining Company. All i

This is an invoice issued by the Funeral Range Copper Company of Copperfield, Inyo County in the amount of $3. It's dated August 29, 1906 and...

2 reproduction Smartsville maps 19x19". 1930 Colombo Mine, Sierra City map 24,52, a few small tears and stain. Please inspect. California

Seventeenth Report of the State Mineralogist by California State Mining Bureau, 1920. A key volume for California mining, 562pp with index. Boards det

A number of correspondence (4), between the Cripple Creek mines and various blasting powder companies, plus a letter from The Giant Powder Company to

High grade ore shipment record. Bottom tears and stains Colorado Victor 1900

6 pieces of Colorado mining ephemera. 2x New Dominion Gold Mining pictorial letterhead, c. 1906. International Mines proxy letters, 2 different. Unity

Two sided. 8 x 5.5" Horizontal fold, two pinholes, slight bend on bottom right corner. Overall in nice condition. Taken from the "State Ge...

Ore Settlement reports, assay, freight records from Northern Smelting and Refinement, c.1916 Idaho

Articles of Incorporation, Coeur d'Alene and Montana Copper Mining 1907. Annual reports Dannemora? Gold and Copper Mining, Wallace, Idaho 1903, ...

Lot of 2: Printed copies of a letter dateline New York, July 27th, 1878. States that the holder of mortgage bond No. 22 and No. 23 is entitled to 500

c. 1953 Butte, MT Jaycees copper leaf cover booklet with mine site on cover. 6x4.5" Montana Butte

Miner's Union newspaper checks Montana Labor News out of Butte, Montana. Dated c. 1940. Over two dozen. Hole punched as paid. Montana Butte

Combination Gold Mine ephemera package (7), including a blank stock certificate, receipt for engraving services, an assay from Lewis & Walker of...

1892 letter from Castle Mining to AM Holter Hardware regarding a pump, creased. 1891 letter to AM Holter Hardware regarding a safety(sic) valve. This

1918 minutes of board of directors meeting. Trial balance sheets 1917-2/28, 3/31, 4/30, 5/31. Preliminary prospectus of Rocky Mountain Consolidating

Rare pictorial letterhead from E Schneider, purveyor of mining candles, glycerine and saoponfield red oil. 1893 letter to S R Buford regarding a quot

Anaconda Copper Mining Company, Colville WA, 5 page letter regarding drill holes and copper samples c 1953. 3 x c. 1960's letters from Anaconda...

Article of Incorporation from 2 Montana coal companies. 1917 Missoula Coal and Development and 1903 The Coal Company. Montana

1889 Montana Smelting letter and assay report on Home Stake tailings with finding of a low grade of silver. Montana

2 Articles of incorporation. Calumet and Montana had 6 claims with about 120 acres, in the Copper Queen district located along the Montana Idaho borde

Ephemera, contracts and files from Potosi Mine in Mineral Hill Mining District, c. 1930's. Montana

A detailed and fantastic 1891 letter to Boston & Montana C C and S M Co. on the progress of a smelter being built. 16pp with costs, constructio...

About 24 pieces of Montana mining ephemera. Elmu Orling Mining c. 1920's cards in a book. Geology book with hand drawn maps from NB Mining, an u...

Black Friday Lode map measuring 34"x 42" and in readable shape, with some fold tearing. The Black Friday is a gold mine located in Broadwa...

8 Montana copper mine articles of incorporation and other corporate documents. Copper Bay, Anaconda-tape repairs, Regis, Bonanza, Coeur D'Alene...

Letter from The Diamond Queen Mining Company (Bullfrog Mining District), signed by F.L. Warburton. It comes with the cover and is addressed to Attorne

A half dozen documents related to the Comstock, including a pay roll receipt for the Virginia & Truckee Railroad, receipt for two ads in the Gol...

About 60 crisp Goldfield Deep Mines 6pp promo pieces with photos. Buy their stock for 20 cents per share. Seems like a good deal, what could go wrong?

Four booklets (all same). An example of what is in the 20 page booklet comes on the first page. A dirt road is in view with caption ìthree hund...

Monographs of the USGS, Volume IV, 1883, Comstock Mining and Miners, by Lord. 451pp with index, Carson Valley map etc. Nevada Virginia City 1883

The Walker Lake Copper Mining & Smelting Co. / The Thorne Copper Mining & Reduction Co. Promoted by the Patrick Investment Company (who prom...

This typed letter is from Fred Piehl to his friend Howard Gunther. The letter is postmarked from Goodsprings, NV. Both knew each other having fought t

A collection of pages showing expenses and income for the Birdseye Creek section of the Nevada Mining Company in the early 1900s. All in nice conditio

Lot of 2. 1) 1885 receipt entitling FP Benis (or Bemis) to attend the Graduation Examinations in the course of Mining Engineering at the School of Min

By LFS Halland, Mining Engineer, Telluride, Colorado. 9 pages. The Cow Bay mine is located about 8 miles east of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Located but one

Lot of two. 1) Tri-metals Mineral Property, Lane County. Includes holdings and description of area. Includes fold out map 14x20î. In extremely ...

1) Shows overview of a mining operation. 2) Close up of a mining operation. Photos have faded over the years. One has a little discoloration. Photos a

1931. In American Fork Canyon about half way between South Fork and Deer Creek.. Five different locations listed for the Gold Ledge: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5

7 pieces of Bingham Canyon mining ephemera. Kennecott, Bingham Cons. Mining, Dalton and Lark ledger, photo, Utah Copper 1911 report. Utah Bingham

8.5" x 11" hand drawn and colored map of a Utah land patent showing Sanpete Co. and Salt Co. land. Utah Salt Lake City c1918

Contract between the Mammoth Mining Company and the International Smelting Company on the transfer of ore from the mine to the smelter (no more than 5

About 20 pieces of Utah mining ephemera. Park City, SLC, Grand Gulch, etc. Billheads, letters and covers, photos, mine report, checks etc. Utah

Six nice reproductions of the Tintic Type Cars for heavy cage service. 1924. Developed by the Ogden Iron Works, James W. Silver Manager. Patented in t

The company owned various mining properties in Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons. Includes 1927 letterhead (shipping about 25 tons per day, etc.), Sal

9 pieces of Utah mining related stock ephemeras. La Coste & Co, J B Thompson, several Salt Lake Stock and Mining Exchange closing quotations, E ...

Contains a number of correspondence and covers from the Hermosillo Copper Company in Hermosillo, Mexico. This typed correspondence includes letters

The Saloon on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier by West. De Re Metalica by Hoover, 1950. Translated reprint from 1912, 638pp with index. Jim

Prospectus for a Mexican mine. 9pp, toning Mexico 1903

This coal scuttle is 13 in. X 10 in. X 9 in. Heavy oxidation, used to shuttle hot coals, reinforced handle. Repaired bottom. The scuttle was used to m

3 ASARCO Safety Bulletins 1916-17, hardcover Daniel Cowan Jackling 1954 Rotunda book with foldout Jackling photo. Geff Pollock Collection

Group of publications and reports related to mining. Includes Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies, Practical Short Cuts in Milling and

13 pieces of refining and smelting ephemera c. 1917-48. U S Smelting Refining and Mining employee time records-stains, Southern Pacific, J W Currie.

Fraser & Chalmers Wire Rope Tramways catalog. Undated, 18pp. Illustrations of tramways as would be used with mining buckets. Page chips, torn sp...

The mining book; Silver and Gold: the Mining and Metallurgical Industry of the United States written by Rossiter Raymond while Commissioner of Mining

1-2) Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain region. 16 pages. A general treatise. 1876. 3) Gold Mines East of the Rocky Mountains by

9 mining publications. 2x Canadian Mines Handbook 1934. Mineralogist's Pocket Reference, undated. California Drilling of Petroleum and Gas Wells...

Oregon hydraulic mining stereoview by Keystone. 7.5" metal toll, Miner's Ice & Fuel Co. Framed dredge photo, 7x10". 1911 Mining an...

3 Mining Engineers' Handbook by Peele. 1918 softcover, 2375pp, covers have wear. Volume 1 wrapped in plastic. volume 2, 1941.

Leaching Gold and Silver Ores by C H Aaron. 1881,168pp with index. Info on the Plattner and Kiss processes. Many equipment plate illustrations.

11 dowsing for gold books. American Society of Dowsers 1990 member roster. 2x The Diving Hand by Bird. Mysteries of Treasure Hunting by Santschi. 6x 1

Two reports by J.S. Diller, one on the Topography of the Pacific Coast, the other, which is signed by the author Sandstone Dikes. Please see photos f

3 different mine lights. Small oil wick lamp with front door and windows , 5.5" tall. Brass Pioneer Electric with hook, 8.5" tall plus hoo...

MSA carbon monoxide detector # 47133 in leather case, 9x4". MSA permissible methane detector with leather case, 7x3", also known as Minnie...

2 different oil wick lamps. Large unmarked steel lamp 7.75" tall, dent under spout base. Brass unmarked lamp with hook handle, 9" tall, sm...

Guy's Drop pinch waist 8 hour brass hand lamp with bail. 6" plus bail. Overall nice condition!

Model 111B Scintillator by Precision Radiation Instruments with reprinted manual. This device was used to detect radiation starting in the mid 1950&...

1896 Catalogue No. 3, Union Iron Works, Metallurgical and Mining Machinery by Jno. T Scott. Lots of illustrations of their iron and mining products wi

15 California miner and mining volumes, some of which are rare. California State Mining Bureau Report 1886-87, California State Mining Bureau Report

Miner's metal lunchboxes manufactured by Western Hardware of Leadville Colorado. One (a liquid container with spout) measures 12"x 6"x...

Old Bardstown Bourbon Surface Miner decanter without contents, 13" tall. Avon 1987 The Gold Rush Stein with panning miner and Western street s...

4 vintage wood coal advertising shoe brushes. E M Tolles, South Norwalk, Conn. Black Gem Coal and Coke, Chicago. J F Angley. Bingman Fuel. All about 2

Ten publications mostly related to gold mining and the Gold Rush. A) Christie's Gold Rush Treasures from the SS Central America auction catalog ...

Nice assortment of mining related items. 15 Mining Antiques Collectors Dinner, Tucson, c. 1995-2009. 2 mining notepads. 12" assay tongs. Bolivi...

Lot of 3. One very rare wht. border RPC (?) birdseye view of Hammonton, Calif. Named after the founder of Hammon Dredging Co. Wendall P. Hammon. A