“After getting down about two or three feet, I washed out a pan of dirt and got a good prospect of coarse gold….We kept bailing out the water and digging down to about three and a half feet. “I commenced to dig,” Herman Reinhart wrote while working in the Waldo area. Using rockers and sluice boxes to process the gravels, enterprising miners worked long hours. The 1860 federal census counted several hundred miners in various mining precincts. The miners, primarily men in their twenties and thirties, came from countries that included Belgium, Ireland, Switzerland, Germany, and England, and states such as Massachusetts, New York, Missouri, and Tennessee. Miners also worked placers on the coast near Pistol River and Port Orford and at present-day Gold Beach, where black sand held gold and platinum deposits. Publicity about the find in the San Francisco Alta California brought miners to the region from California and the Willamette Valley, and before long gold-seekers had staked claims on the Applegate, Illinois, and Rogue Rivers. In 18, miners found gold on Josephine Creek, on the Illinois River, and on creeks near Jacksonville, Oregon.

Keith Neumeyer, founding President and CEO of First Majestic Silver Corp.In 1848, two years after Lindsay Applegate traveled through the Rogue River Valley, the discovery of gold in Sutter’s Mill, California, brought prospectors through southwest Oregon. In addition, First Mining also owns the Cameron Gold Project in Ontario.įirst Mining was established in 2015 by Mr.

First Mining also has active partnerships with operators advancing other Canadian projects including the Pickle Crow Gold Project (with Auteco Minerals) and Hope Brook Gold Project (with Big Ridge Gold). The Company is the largest shareholder of Treasury Metals who are advancing the Goliath Gold Complex in Ontario. First Mining is a Canadian gold developer focused on the development of the Springpole Gold Project in northwestern Ontario and the Duparquet Gold Project in Quebec, two of the largest gold projects in Canada.įirst Mining has commenced a Feasibility Study at Springpole where permitting activities are on-going with a draft Environmental Impact Statement ('EIS') for the project published in June 2022 which is available on our Environmental Assessment portal.įirst Mining also acquired a 100% interest in the Duparquet Gold Project in September 2022 and are developing plans to advance the project along with its adjacent Porcupine East, Duquesne and Pitt properties in Quebec.

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