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quartz mine†

Mining

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a mine in which gold or other mineral is found in quartz rock.

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1900

Nearly all the great quartz-mines of North America--and without a quartz-mine no really permanent mining settlement is possible--have been discovered by tracing alluvial deposits of gold to their point of origin in the mother rock.