Established in 1896, the Sixteen to One Mine is a unique "pocket" mine where gold is found in highly concentrated deposits within the quartz vein. The mine has produced over 1 million ounces of gold and is famous for its quartz and gold gemstone sought by jewelers. Underground Excursion: Three hour tour begins at the Museum where you will be introduced to the history of the Alleghany Mining District and [...]
Open by appointment, by chance, or for special events. Exhibits include the history of the town of Alleghany, the mining district and the Sixteen to One Mine. Local minerals and rocks are on display. Videos available for viewing tell the history of hardrock mining and document recent history at the Sixteen to One Mine. The museum gift shop features gold-laced quartz specimens and jewelry from the Sixteen to One Mine [...]
DEAR FELLOW SHAREHOLDERS, I’ve heard reports of phone calls and letters seeking your shares for $0.20 a share. The buyers are hostile to Original Sixteen to One Mine, Inc. Some shareholders, current and past directors and management know they enacted a “loan-to-own” move to bankrupt our Company. As its lender, they would acquire our property. I refer to this smarmy group as the “Triumvirate”. You are making a huge financial [...]
EXCERPTS FOR HISTORIC ANNUAL REPORTS 1986: It is crucial for our company to attract money to expand our exploration and development programs. This need is significantly different from companies who seek money to retire debt or just carry on operations. Our company is under no threat due to inadequate resources to maintain the present level of operations indefinitely. 1993 was a pivotal one for us. By the end of September, [...]
PLEASE TAKE NOTE: Internet-generated directions to Alleghany (such as those retrieved from Google Maps) are NOT recommended! GPS is not accurate, either, as most units attempt to take you by the shortest route - which almost always means an unpaved, unmaintained dirt road fit only for 4W Drives. Please use the map provided below!
1911 ~ July 19 Name of Mine: Plumbago Location of Mine: Alleghany, CA. Cause of Disaster: Missed hole Killed and Injured: K-2 / I-0 1922 ~ May 4 Name of Mine: Tightner Location of Mine: Alleghany, CA. Cause of Disaster: Caught between skip and shaft timbers Killed and Injured: K-1 / I-0 1929 ~ Sept. 22 Name of Mine: Original Sixteen to One Location of Mine: Alleghany, [...]
Clarence H. Gordon Sir: Your statements and actions are very cleverly sprinkled half-truths and lies. It is indeed a wasteful shame that such talent isn’t being put to better use than to try to oust Mrs. Duke from that which is rightfully hers. You state, “without knowing if the gold Crown can produce gold in sufficient amounts to return dividends”. The Gold Crown last year did produce and a shipment [...]
We are advised that with proper evidence we may be able to break the stranglehold that the majority stockholder now has on the corporation. We are gathering funds to enable our attorney to bring legal action. The papers are now being prepared and a suit will be filed as soon as it is evident that we have your financial support. We will prosecute this case to the full extent possible, [...]
Newsletter to the shareholders of the Gold Crown Mining Corporation THIS REPORT IS COMPILED TO ORIENTATE THE SHAREHOLDERS OF THE GOLD CROWN MINING CORPORATION, AS TO THE PAST, PRESENT, AND PLANNED FUTURE OPERATION OF THE GOLD CROWN MINE. ON JULY 20, 1953, A QUARTZ VEIN WAS STRUCK AT THE 1,510 FOOT POINT IN THE EXPLORATION DRIFT, AT THE LOWER WORKINGS, WHERE THE MAIN OPERATION OF THE MINE IS NOW IN [...]
The Brown Bear gold mine is located within the Deadwood - French Gulch Mining District of Trinity County, California, approximately 30 miles west-northwest of Redding. At the brown bear mine, approximately 400 to 500 thousand ounces of gold were produced during the period from 1876 to 1950 from a series of quartz veins that range in thickness from 18 inches to 20 feet. Although no calculated ore reserve exists at [...]
Grass Valley (cal.) Oct. 22- The discovery of Bonanza ore in the South Fork mine in Forest city is considered one of the greatest strikes ever made in this district, and if the vein ultimately proves to be the great Tightner ore body, as everything indicates, it will mean the development of a giant property. The South Fork is owned by Los Angeles people and work has been moving ahead [...]
MINES AND MINING- Activities in the ore districts of the Great Southwest. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE TIMES Los Angeles Times 1886; Sept. 5, 1909; ProQuest Historical Newspapers Los Angeles Times (1881-1976) Pg.II10 Local man at Grass Valley. Nevada City (cal.) Sept.3- Benjamin Fenton, a Los Angeles real estate and mining man, has been in this section several days looking over mining properties and other interests. He is highly impressed with [...]
A judge has thrown out the case against two Sierra County gold miners charged with manslaughter after a fatal accident more than two years ago. The ruling Thursday in Downieville Calif., cleared Michael Meister Miller, 60, president of the Original Sixteen to One Mine in Alleghany, and mine manager Jonathan Farrell, 32, of responsibility for the death of Mark Fussell, 36. Fussell was operating a locomotive deep in the mine [...]
A judge has thrown out the case against two Sierra County gold miners charged with manslaughter after a fatal accident more than two years ago. The ruling Thursday in Downieville Calif., cleared Michael Meister Miller, 60, president of the Original Sixteen to One Mine in Alleghany, and mine manager Jonathan Farrell, 32, of responsibility for the death of Mark Fussell, 36. Fussell was operating a locomotive deep in the mine [...]
A judge has thrown out the case against two Sierra County gold miners charged with manslaughter after a fatal accident more than two years ago. The ruling Thursday in Downieville Calif., cleared Michael Meister Miller, 60, president of the Original Sixteen to One Mine in Alleghany, and mine manager Jonathan Farrell, 32, of responsibility for the death of Mark Fussell, 36. Fussell was operating a locomotive deep in the mine [...]
Alleghany (cal.) Jun. 20, the recent rich shipment of ore, amounting to 1200 pounds, pulled from Tightner mine Yielded the owners $75,000 in fine gold and 400 ounces of concentrates valued at $12 per ounce, making a total of $79,000. This ore was extracted in the course of developing the main vein in the lower adit, and was not taken out with the purpose of showing the richness of the [...]
Up to 1872, only a little e placer mining by a man named Britton had been done in the section now known as Deadwood, then Kline, who was also working placer, discovered the first quartz ledge, and named it Bismark. He immediately turned his whole attention to quartz, working with good success for three or four years. He next discovered the Montezuma, and still owns both mines. The latter joins [...]
Even the wild rush to California in ’49 hardly equaled that to Caribou ten years later. Surely there has never been such a frenzied scramble for gold as that which filled the harbor of Victoria, Vancouver Island, with a navy of antiquated, leaky craft, laden to the scuppers with a horde of dauntless adventurers, burning to reach the precious placers of the Upper Frazer. These upper reaches are wild enough [...]
ALLEGHANY- The last land auction to take place in the Wild West was over a century ago, when landowners settled their disputes with gunfights. The final chapter of this California epic came to an end Saturday, when the Federal Government sold 17 parcels of land to the public. Thirty-one bidders ended up spending a total of $239,800- all in cash and four times the minimum bid amounts for the properties. [...]
PROSPECTUS OF THE GOLD CROWN MINING CORPORATION ALLEGHANY, CALIFORNIA LOCATION The Gold Crown Mine is located in the Alleghany Mining District, Sierra County, California, at an elevation of approximately 4,300 feet. It is about one fourth of a mile from the town of Alleghany, and thirty-nine miles North-East of Nevada City, with which, connection is made by highway, and two mountain roads, both of which pass directly through the Gold [...]