Ivan Herring's Mines of the American West - Los Angeles County, California PDF

la County is the twenty-second ebook in a sequence of books on Mines of the yankee West and the fourth on counties in California. This booklet includes over 870 entries overlaying mines, ancient mining businesses and linked lore in l. a. County. those books are meant for using small miners, “rockhounds”, metal-detector fans, hikers, campers, off-roaders and others. glossy GPS coordinates were linked to so much files to permit the reader to do some “prospecting from their computer”, utilizing to be had online instruments resembling Google Earth. The publication is searchable, by means of “key word”, so which will examine the Gold mines within the County, you could seek on Gold; or, for you to locate the mines on a selected USGS Quad map (24K, 100K or 250K), the identify of the Quad map might be searched.
I think the main miraculous factor concerning the l. a. County info, at the least to me, was once the big variety of Gold occurrences in la County. The ebook comprises over two hundred entries regarding Gold homes, approximately break up part Lode and part Placer. I by no means discovered the quantity of Gold mining that happened in and round this zone, now seen as a teaming city. additionally there also are a lot of Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Tungsten, Manganese and different such mines, incorporated within the book.
In this publication the various destinations were reviewed utilizing Google Earth and the implications are incorporated in a remark part on the finish of the access. instruments like Google Earth permit the reader to pursue their pursuits and assessment destinations whilst the elements is undesirable or they just have constrained blocks of time. It will also let the reader to maximise their use of time once they can bodily stopover at the components. additionally, as a profit to actual visitors, some of the mines were grouped via Mining District, the place such existed.