Dear Shareholders, Words fail me today for this once a year opportunity to write you. Our operation seems to parallel other businesses in a holding pattern. The mine is kept dewatered, underground travelways are safe and accessible, surface maintenance is attended to, paperwork demands are in compliance AND the spot price for gold is over $1600 an ounce. We diligently seek ways to return to those good old days [...]
ALLEGHANY– “Maybe this will be the technological breakthrough anticipated since metal detectors were first used underground at the Sixteen to One mine,” said Mike Miller, president of the nation’s oldest gold mining company. The Original Sixteen to One Mine, Inc. became one of 500 one-hundred year old U.S. companies, and its Sixteen to One mine in Sierra County is the longest operating gold mine in North America. The company [...]
by Mike Miller, CEO Original Sixteen to One Mine Mine worker safety practices locally and nationwide were recognized in a recent statistical release. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) said 36 miners (19 in coal and 17 in metal/nonmetal mining) died in work-related accidents at the nation’s mines in 2012, the second lowest annual fatality total on record. Last year, three of the miners [...]
By Robert S. Shoemaker Published in the Mountain Messenger - August 30, 2012 I have two degrees in chemistry and one in metallurgical engineering. I have been the president of both the Society of Mining, Metallurgical and Exploration Engineers and the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America. I have designed, built, or operated over 100 gold recovery plants. I would like to straight out several misconceptions about the [...]
2 million in gems, gold stolen from Calif. museum Updated 1:32 p.m., Monday, October 1, 2012 Page 1 of 1 MARIPOSA, Calif. (AP) — California investigators searched Monday for thieves who made off with an estimated $2 million in precious gems and gold from a Central Valley museum during a brazen daytime robbery. But they didn't get away with the biggest prize of all — the nearly 14-pound Fricot [...]
Dear Shareholders, I heard this clever joke on a radio program. The doctor comes into the patient’s room and says, “I have good news for you and bad news. Which do you want first?” The patient asks for the good news first. The doctor says, “You have a rare disease and only have 48 hours to live.” The patient shrieks, “Doctor, if this is the good news, what’s the bad news?” “ I wasn’t able [...]
Wealth managers like a little gold as part of a diversified portfolio to hedge against inflationary pressure on the value of the dollar due the enormous federal deficit and national debt.And if a buyer takes physical possession of gold, it can offer peace of mind to an investor worried about the potential collapse of the financial markets.“Investing in gold is very conservative. It is more than conservative; it is a [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C.–A majority of Congress and the President of the United States have re-thought their commitments to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, and have elected to replace our republican form of government, foregoing the most basic limitations to federal power. Ignoring the requirement that states be involved in amending the Constitution, Congress and the President have formally voided the historic Fifth and Sixth amendments. President Barak [...]
Owner Mike Miller of Original Sixteen-to-One Mine Inc. can now move ahead to gather evidence showing the Central Valley Region of the California Regional Water Quality Control Board improperly fined his company more than $2.1 million for failure to file water quality reports.He called it a case of a state agency reaching far beyond state and federal mandates to assure clean water — and he's hoping state officials will take [...]
Kamela Harris isn’t getting her way. Which is not to say the Sixteen won’t eventually end up in bankruptcy court; but it will at least take the State of California a considerably longer time to drive the mine into extinction.Championing the State’s corrupt and power mad Water Quality Control Board, the Attorney General insisted in September that the Water Board had an open and shut case against the Sixteen to [...]
Original Sixteen-to-One Forced to Close Due to Low Price of Gold California Mining Journal, February 1966 Reprinted from the Mountain Messenger One of California’s better known gold mines, with a name that brings memories of political controversy of another century – a venerable producer of high grade ore in its day – the Sixteen to One mine in Alleghany will suspend operations and be closed tight. This was the announcement [...]
SACRAMENTO–The State Water Quality Control Board has had a knack for getting good press. Who, after all, doesn’t want quality water?Unfortunately, that’s not what the Water Board is about: it’s about the amassing of power for exercise by staff and control of California industry.Undirected by the appointed officials allegedly running the Water Board, its staff pressed charges against Alleghany’s Sixteen to One Mine for prosecution. The Sixteen is accused of [...]
Dear Shareholders, A small crew continues the maintenance program on the 1000-foot level that runs north. The working face is half a mile from the Tightner Shaft. The mining objective is an untouched quartz vein with very favorable likelihood of commercial gold. For the casual observer of the Sixteen to One gold deposit, gold seems unpredictable. The trained eye sees the quartz vein differently. It is possible to predict [...]
It's been a few years since I found myself deep inside the stomach of the Original Sixteen To One Mine. I'd been invited on a tour with the mine's manager and spirited leader Mike Miller. I remember Mike telling me that the only reason there is a United States Post Office in the town of Alleghany — population of roughly 70 — is to handle the piles of paperwork required [...]
SANTA CLARA–The legal outrage perpetrated against Mike Miller of the Sixteen to One Mine has finally been recognized in legal circles. Sierra County DA Larry Allen forwarded to us a recent report on prosecutorial misconduct by the Northern California Innocence Project at the Santa Clara University. That study identified the Sierra County case as one of 707 examples of such malfeasance; in this case withholding evidence from the Grand Jury.For [...]
Rita Hosking has always wanted to go down into a mine and perform. Her great grandfather, a Cornish immigrant, often sang in the deep dark tunnels while he worked in the Grass Valley Empire Mines. He even broadcasted across national radio twice during WWII from within the mines. “I always listened to the recordings of that as a kid,” Hosking says. “I found mining history fascinating.” For Hosking – performing [...]
Well-written quotations or those from well-known people are helpful tools in conveying thoughts to large audiences. Brevity is welcomed. Sometimes in our operation with the Sixteen to One mine, it seems impossible to convey my analysis of the operation briefly. How is so simple a business (that of finding, extracting and marketing the Sixteen to One gold) so difficult for others to understand? This year’s theme will be succinct [...]
Like earthquakes in the Pacific’s “ring of fire” tornadoes in middle America and hurricanes smashing onto America’s far east and south coasts, the technology of locating gold in the Sixteen to One Quartz beyond the current range of four feet is a question of ‘when’ not a question of ‘if’. Since 1992, this rich concentration of gold in North America’s oldest working gold mine has been a Beta site for [...]
My first meeting with Bill took place in December of 1974. He was a former geologist for the mine and lived not far away in San Andreas, California. He seemed cautious or aloof or at the least very guarded with our conversations. Some people would confuse this attitude as gruff. Quickly, I learned that Bill took mining and the Alleghany Mining District very seriously. His caution in revealing facts, [...]
This fresh approach to understanding why Americans seem so passive to gold as compared with people in other countries was printed in the Sparks Nevada, Tribune on 11/22/09. Gold and Gold Mining in America The most remarkable aspect of America’s failure to educate its people is the number of basic facts that the schools fail to address during twelve plus years of childhood incarceration. Such salient information as [...]
Thirty-five years into his rocky career as a gold miner at the Original Sixteen to One Mine, he's still part cynic, part starry-eyed dreamer.“The Bureau of Mines doesn't exist anymore,” the mine president drily told members of the Nevada County Historical Society, in rapt attention under their hard hats. “It's the bureau of environmentalists.”But he also speaks with a 49er's lusty hopes for precious metal.“Geologists say 80 percent of this [...]
This time, the Water Board is taking the Sixteen to One, and CEO Mike Miller personally, to court in a civil suit alleging generally the same complaints. Meanwhile, Miller awaits word on requests he has made of the Water Board steadily through the last 10 years. The recent suit names the mine as a source of waste and pollutants into Kanaka Creek, claims the mine is deficient in monitoring [...]
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Hardrock mines, also known as “lode” mines follow quartz veins and produce gold imbedded in rock. Placer mines also known as “drift” mines follow ancient river channels and produce “free gold” or gold nuggets. Some mines, such as the Ruby Mine in the Alleghany Mining District produced both. Dredging and panning for gold are forms of placer mining.Related article "spectacular finds" coming soon....
Price: $102,500 OBO It is estimated that of all the gold produced in the world today only 1% comes from ore bodies with visible gold. Less than 1% of the ore bodies with visible gold produce crystaline gold. This is THE most rare type of natural gold. Approximate Size: 78mm x 45mm x 43mm Weight: 6.81 ounces troy. Item # 0963-950623-423 [...]
"Dragon" Crystaline Gold and Quartz Weight: 6.56 troy ounces Dimensions: 101mm x 30mm x 25mm Item# 0956-950621-424 Price: $50,000 OBO "Yager's Imposter" Found in the early days of metal detecting at the Sixteen to One. This piece was literally run over for many years as it lay undetected near the rail at the Trespass stope. Weight: 21.93 Troy ounces Dimensions: 101mm x 88mm x 19mm Item #0076-920115-025 Price: [...]
Gold in Quartz 9.42 OZT 76x7x48mm Item # 1249-950626-421 Found off the 2233 Level in 1995 Price $19,800 OBO Very rare to find Mariposite and Gold together. The green is mariposite which gets its color from chrome. 7.3 OZT 80x 70x 30mm Item #1740 Price: $3,200 OBO Drill hole 51.94 OZT 130x100x30MM Item #1711 Price: $79,500 OBO Drill hole (back) 51.94 OZT [...]
Vote for your favorite video and win a quartz and gold specimen! Rules of entry are simple: view both videos, which can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zKq4t237dQ and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPBurrtFEFo, or right here on our website. Send your vote to: corp@origsix.comThe winner will be selected randomly on or about March 31, 2009Video 1: Oh! SusannahVideo 2: Lacrimosa
A visual look into the working of the Sixteen to One Mine. Musical score by Travis T. Hipp and friends. Photography by Michael Miller. Editing by Edda Snyder.