Sierra County Treasure Map
Sierra County California treasure-history records: buried caches, lost mines, source links, land-status warnings, field notes, and interactive map links.
3 Sierra County Records
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Poker Flat Cache
During the height of the Sierra County Gold Rush in the late 1850s, Jerome Peyron operated a highly prosperous retail store that catered to the thousands of miners in the Poker Flat district. Fearing the frequent.
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Great Blue Lead at Forest City and Bald Mountain
Forest City and the Bald Mountain drift mine sat on the famed Great Blue Lead, a buried auriferous channel that drove some of Sierra County's most persistent lost-channel speculation. Historical accounts describe the.
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Original Sixteen-to-One Mine
One of the most famous and longest-operating gold mines in California. Discovered in 1896, it is legendary for its extremely high-grade gold-in-quartz specimen ore. Focuses on locating 'pockets' where gold occurred in.