Mines of the American West - Los Angeles County, California by Ivan Herring

l. a. County is the twenty-second booklet in a sequence of books on Mines of the yank West and the fourth on counties in California. This e-book comprises over 870 entries masking mines, old mining businesses and linked lore in la County. those books are meant for using small miners, “rockhounds”, metal-detector lovers, hikers, campers, off-roaders and others. smooth GPS coordinates were linked to such a lot documents to permit the reader to do some “prospecting from their computer”, utilizing on hand online instruments corresponding to Google Earth. The ebook is searchable, via “key word”, so as a way to examine the Gold mines within the County, you could seek on Gold; or, for you to locate the mines on a particular USGS Quad map (24K, 100K or 250K), the identify of the Quad map can be searched.
I think the main brilliant factor concerning the la County information, at the least to me, was once the massive variety of Gold occurrences in la County. The ebook includes over two hundred entries on the topic of Gold homes, approximately break up part Lode and part Placer. I by no means learned the volume of Gold mining that happened in and round this sector, now considered as a teaming city. additionally there also are plenty of Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Tungsten, Manganese and different such mines, integrated within the book.
In this booklet a few of the 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 enable the reader to pursue their pursuits and overview destinations while the elements is undesirable or they just have constrained blocks of time. It will also enable the reader to maximise their use of time once they can bodily stopover at the parts. additionally, as a gain to actual visitors, the various mines were grouped through Mining District, the place such existed.