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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10FJ_the-baltic-mine-project_Johannesburg-CA.html
Few local miners still burrow underground, lured by the rich yellow gleam of gold. Most gold now recovered from California's Rand Mining District is microscopic in size, and so finely dispersed that it is invisible to the naked eye. Rock containin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10FI_historic-randsburg_Johannesburg-CA.html
Rand Camp began as a tent city, erected by eager miners who rushed to the Mojave Desert following a major gold discovery in April 1895. A year later, the town of 1,500 had been renamed "Randsburg." Saloons sprouted, a U.S. Post Office was establis…