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Sutter's Mill (Coloma) mine

Sutter's Mill (Coloma) mine, United States. Heritage site, placer, mining gold.

Why Sutter's Mill (Coloma) is famous

James W. Marshall found gold in the tailrace of Sutter's sawmill on 24 January 1848, starting the California Gold Rush.1,2

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Timeline

  1. 1848 to 1855California gold rush3
  2. 1848James Marshall finds gold at Sutter's sawmill3

What kind of deposit

Placer gold and tin

Sutter's Mill (Coloma) today

Where gold is mined todayMining in United States

Where next

Mines

Same kind of depositKlondike (Bonanza Creek)From a sawmill tailrace in 1848 to Bonanza Creek in 1896, placer gold twice drew the world.1

Events

Led toCalifornia gold rushRead what happened near Sutter's Mill (Coloma): California gold rush.1Led toJames Marshall finds gold at Sutter's sawmillRead what happened near Sutter's Mill (Coloma): James Marshall finds gold at Sutter's sawmill.1

Places

Located inColomaSutter's Mill (Coloma) sits at Coloma.1

Deposit types

An example ofPlacer gold and tinSutter's Mill (Coloma) belongs to the placer gold and tin family of deposits.4

Sources

  1. Marshall Gold Discovery plaque text California State Parks
  2. Wikidata entity Q1973789
  3. The California Gold Rush (California National Historic Trail) US National Park Service
  4. Mineral Deposit Models (Bulletin 1693, Cox and Singer, eds., 1986) US Geological Survey

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Super Pit, Kalgoorlie by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0; Underground mining equipment by Kaupo Kikkas, CC BY-SA 4.0. Pictures: Gold prospectors constructing a long box with a filter for panning gold. Process print after H.M. Paget, 1899., Henry Marriott Paget (Public Domain Mark 1.0); Pangkalpinang. Mijn 3b. Een reeks koelies bezig met het transporteeren van grond, Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0).