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Mars-John Mine Archive, Calaveras County

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Mining Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 1,000.00 USD
Mars-John Mine Archive, Calaveras County
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This small archive includes: two issued company stock certificates (heavy wear) from 1920s; a bound book of copies of early claims and court cases for the company; around 70 black and white photographs of varying sizes showing mining facilities, ore samples, spectral results, underground operations, etc.; assay book for results 1929-1931; 1924 leather-bound "Report upon Examination of the Oro Minto or Calaveras Gold Mine...of the Mar-John Mines Company"; two 1930 reports from The Shaw Laboratory in SF with microphotographs of samples; a 1926 map of the mining claims; various other documents, including letters and stock payment receipts. This collection deserves to be researched further. A wonderful glimpse into mining in the late 1920s-1930s! Please inspect. Date Calaveras, CA hwac 20278