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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
  • Subject Keys: prospecting
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    • Northwest history. Mining. Conventions. 1929-10-04


    • Mining congress indorses geophysical mineral prospecting - resolution would permit tying up ground before mineral is disclosed - electricity is used - some fear new method would halt old-time prospectors- experts address clubs

    • 1929

    • Mining congress indorses geophysical mineral prospecting - resolution would permit tying up ground before mineral is disclosed - electricity is used - some fear new method would halt old-time prospectors- experts address clubs - Adoption of a...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Conventions. 1929-10-04
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1931-04-16


    • San poil ore half copper.

    • 1931

    • San poil ore half copper. - Streak 4 to 10 inches wide contains 51 per cent, says enginerr -- explorers develops. - A streak of ore that is half copper was observed by Rowland King, mining engineer, on the San Poil Monarch property on Meadow creek,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1931-04-16
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1937-05-03


    • Found blue bucket mine in first prospecting venture.

    • 1937

    • Found blue bucket mine in first prospecting venture. - These four were in at the rediscovery of the Blue Bucket mine near Dale, Ore., last summer. On the left is Franz Heartburn, a farm boy from Cottonwood, Idaho, and on the right is his bride, the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1937-05-03
    • Northwest history. Mining. Grub stakes. 1932-07-11


    • Gives meaning of "grubstake."

    • 1932

    • Gives meaning of "grubstake." - "The prospector should finance himself in the hills if possible, and thus avoid entangling alliances," says Dr. John W. Finch, dean of the school of mines of the University of Idaho, in a third pamphlet on gold...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Grub stakes. 1932-07-11
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1920-08-24


    • Find new ledge of good ore in Mountain Chief

    • 1920

    • Find new ledge of good ore in Mountain Chief.
      Value of mine believed to have been double by discovery of vein. Fretting at an exasperating shut-down caused by an engine breakdown Manager J.W. Evans of the Mountain Chief Mining company, put his...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1920-08-24
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1920-09-11


    • Hunts for game; discovers ore

    • 1920

    • Hunts for game; discovers ore.
      P.J. Logan, while hunting last summer on one of the tributaries of the Little North Fork, south of the Clearwater river in the Coeur d'Alenes, discovered good specimens of copper flat and this summer he located...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1920-09-11
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1926-03-30


    • Find rich ore in Galena Queen

    • 1926

    • Find rich ore in Galena Queen.
      Kellogg, Idaho, March 30.-(Special.)-Oliver Plumtree and Thomas Williams, well known prospectors of the Big Creek district, have made an important discovery of a strong lead-silver bearing vein on the south fork on...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1926-03-30
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1935-04-08


    • Potato growers discover silver

    • 1935

    • Potato growers discover silver.
      Fifty-one years ago the Blake boys, while waiting for a patch of potatoes to grow at the mouth of Big creek, did some prospecting in that gulch and made what is believed to be the first discovery of the rich...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1935-04-08
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1931-10-16


    • New whitedelf a possibility.

    • 1931

    • New whitedelf a possibility. - Lessees open riches of galena quarter mile from tunnel of original mine. - Ore has been struck south of the Pugh fault of the Whitedelf mine, where no prospecting has been done before, according to C. L. Heffron, a...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1931-10-16
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1931-07-16


    • Zinc ore found at slate creek.

    • 1931

    • Zinc ore found at slate creek. - Lies under the lead which had been regarded as the only metal of the area. - No zinc was encountered in prospecting the Slate creek area of the Metaline district, begun last fall and resumed late this spring. Its...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1931-07-16
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1935-08-18


    • Prospector finds new silver vein

    • 1935

    • Prospector finds new silver vein.
      Kellogg, Idaho, Aug. 18.-(Special.)-Discovery of a vein carrying high silver values, gold and lead, was reported today by James Gillette, who has spent the summer prospecting in the Fourth of July district....
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1935-08-18
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1928-05-19


    • Boyer assigns mining rights

    • 1928

    • Boyer assigns mining rights.
      Gives power of attorney-rich strike will be financed in Sandpoint. Sandpoint, Idaho, May 19. (Specia.)-More mining men are coming into Sandpoint from remote localities as the news of the ore strike near here reaches...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1928-05-19
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1934-08-17


    • Lead-silver ore found on claims.

    • 1934

    • Lead-silver ore found on claims. - Across the Idaho-Montana divide the Idaho Montana Orlando Mining company owns eight mining claims. In the past few weeks John Swan of burke, president of the company, and John Marshall, a director, have been...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1934-08-17
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1937-01-30


    • Fairview mine picks up rich 25-foot lead.

    • 1937

    • Fairview mine picks up rich 25-foot lead. - The main ore body of the Fairview mine, near Sheridan, Mont., object of a half century of prospecting -- has been encountered by a 1200-foot tunnel driven by C. M. Roos and associates.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1937-01-30
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1936-08-10


    • Report rich claim found at Florence - discovers say early prospectors passed it up- water shortage hinders but mills operating

    • 1936

    • Report rich claim found at Florence - discovers say early prospectors passed it up- water shortage hinders but mills operating - The old saying, "gold is where you find it," appears to hold good in the case of Orval Hilman of Asotin, Wash., and...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1936-08-10
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1936-08-16


    • Idaho newlywed at blue bucket - Grangeville couple on strike scene with Curl and Crisman in Oregon

    • 1936

    • Idaho newlywed at blue bucket - Grangeville couple on strike scene with Curl and Crisman in Oregon - For more than 70 years, prospecting parties have been searching for the Blue Bucket mine, which is the subject of one of the most facinating...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1936-08-16
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1937-08-05


    • Brady digs out rich tungsten.

    • 1937

    • Brady digs out rich tungsten. - O. E. Brady did some picking around Sunday at the new camp of the T. S. & L. Mining company west of Loon lake and in his prospecting opened more rich tungsten ore.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1937-08-05
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1937-08-05


    • Unearth tungsten near loon lake.

    • 1937

    • Unearth tungsten near loon lake. - O. E. Brady (right) while scouting around and doing a little prospecting Sunday, exposed more tungsten ore at the camp of the T. S. & L. company west of Loon Lake. He has dropped his pick to look at a chunk of it.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1937-08-05
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1937-12-19


    • Bulldozer cuts 100-foot ledge.

    • 1937

    • Bulldozer cuts 100-foot ledge. - Reported to have bared 80 per cent lead in montana wild for investors. - Prospecting in mountain snow with a bulldozer has exposed the cropping of what is expected to become another great mine of the Coeur d'Alene...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1937-12-19
    • Northwest history. Mining. Grub stakes. 1932-07-23


    • Partner tells of blue bucket.

    • 1932

    • Partner tells of blue bucket. - J. Bart Curl, who was in Spokane over the weekend to attend a meeting of the Blue Bucket Mining company, has participated in two recent discoveries that promise to make mining history.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Grub stakes. 1932-07-23

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