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Happy #FoolsGoldDay. We put the gold in April 1st: https://t.co/nCebW3qahU #AprilFoolsDay

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Happy New Year! May this be a bonanza year for you and yours! #happyNewYear

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Tour a retired #mine, one of the most advanced #Colorado #GoldRush mills, and a ground breaking tunnel to #CentralCity's #diggings at the Argo Gold Mine & Mill

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The Heritage #Museum and Gallery in historic #Leadville, #Colorado pays homage to the 1880s #silver #boomtown with a yard of #historic #mining equipment.

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The Idaho Museum of Mining & Geology is 2,300 square feet of maps, artifacts, and dioramas on Idaho's mining history and mineral wealth in Boise, Idaho.

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The Colorado School of #Mines #Geology #Museum in #Golden, Colorado boasts the largest collection of #Colorado #mineral specimens along with #mining artifacts.

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The Sumpter Valley Dredge State Heritage Area in #Sumpter, #Oregon preserves one of the largest, most accessible #mining #dredges in all of the United States.

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The Wall Street Mill is the finest example of a #gold processing mill still standing in #JoshuaTree #NationalPark. The two-stamp mill ran from 1930 to 1966.

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The Crater of Diamonds #StatePark is located on a 95-million-year-old eroded #volcano in #Murfreesboro, #Arkansas were visitors can #mine their own #diamonds.

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#Emerald Village features the Bon Ami #Mine, gem panning, #tours, artifacts, and history of the Spruce Pine #Mining District of #NorthCarolina.
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The first authenticated discovery of gold in #California is in 1842 in Placerita Canyon. #Miners still seek rich #gold veins in the #AngelesNationalForest.
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Silver is discovered in Cerro Gordo (“Fat Hill”) in 1865 by Pablo Flores. Between its discovery and 1938, mining in Cerro Gordo generated $17 million.
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Tour a retired #mine, one of the most advanced #Colorado #GoldRush mills, and a ground breaking tunnel to #CentralCity's #diggings at the Argo Gold Mine & Mill
https://t.co/RxkO7UXGx6

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Trinity County Jake Jackson Museum preserves #mining equipment, #goldnugget necklaces, and a working steam powered #stampmill in #Weaverville, #California.

https://t.co/glBd4greQk

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The Sumpter Museum is full of donated mining artifacts, mineral specimens, and archival documents including blue prints of Sumpter's historic dredge.

https://t.co/a3JeRUr6qZ

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The Western #Mining & Railway #Museum follows the story of #coalminers in and around #Helper, #Utah from 1880 to 1950 with maps, artifacts, and pictures.

https://t.co/oEWGvg9Xpl

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The New Mexico Mining #Museum in highlights #uranium and the #radioactive #mining boom that flooded #Grants with #prospectors from the 1950s to 1980s.

https://t.co/hOjOzuZS71

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Burra Burra Copper #mine and its contemporaries mined a rich #copper deposit in southeast #Tennessee, commemorated in the #Ducktown Basin #Museum.

https://t.co/N3RZ8HRcni

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#Emerald Village features the Bon Ami #Mine, gem panning, #tours, artifacts, and history of the Spruce Pine #Mining District of #NorthCarolina.

https://t.co/s3PMgQOu3o

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The #Smithsonian's #Natural #History #Museum exhibits a collection of gold: notable #nuggets and #crystalline pockets from #California's famous #gold #mines.

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