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Illustration, "Struck a Pocket," Gold-Mining in Georgia, Harper's new monthly magazine. v. 59, September 1879
Prospectors mining and panning for gold in Georgia
Illustration, "Hydraulic Mining," Gold-Mining in Georgia, Harper's new monthly magazine. v. 59, September 1879
Illustration showing the process of hydraulic mining
Illustration, "Cutting Machine," History of the United States Mint and American Coinage, Ancient and Modern, George Evans, 1885
Image showing the use of the cutting machine in a mint. It punches circles out of a sheet of metal.
Illustration, "Casting Ingots," History of the United States Mint and American Coinage, Ancient and Modern, George Evans, 1885
Image showing the casting of ingots in a U.S. mint. Ingots are around 12 inches long, a half inch thick, and vary from one to two and a half inches wide.
Illustrations, Figures 18 & 19: "Hollow gum" and "Inclined Plane", Essay on the Georgia Gold Mines, William Phillips, 1833
Illustrations showing the new mining technologies of the early 1830s. The “hollow gum” (fig. 18) and inclined plane (fig. 19) allowed larger amounts of gravel to be washed while catching the particles of gold.
Land grant, James Orr Sr., 1 June 1843
Land grant in the 1832 Gold Lottery under Governor Charles J. McDonald, dated June 1, 1843, for 40 acres in 12th District of the 1st Section of Cherokee County, #125
Illustration, Proposed High Trestle, undated
Example of a wooden trestle used to transport water used in the gold mining process
Photograph, Hydraulic Mining in the Decomposed Auriferous Slates, with their Vein Content, at the Singleton Mine, Dahlonega, Georgia, in A Preliminary Report on a Part of the Gold Deposits of Georgia, 1896
Photograph showing the practice of hydraulic mining in Dahlonega, GA, though decades after the height of the Georgia Gold Rush
Postcard, Dredging Gold, Dahlonega, GA, Undated
Dredge boats brought gravel up from river beds either by shovel, crane, or continuous ladder-bucket elevators. The tailings, or mud-like waste, was discharged back into the water or piled on the bank.
Photograph, Stamp Mill, Undated
Photograph of a water-powered stamp mill