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What was the way in which gold was assayed during the Alaskan gold rush?
Did the US have an assay office in Alaska or did the gold have to be transported back to San Francisco or some other point? -
Re: What was the way in which gold was assayed during the Alaskan gold rush?
Get the book ' A California Gold Rush History by Q. David Bowers.'..... I have a signed copy... A really great book with very detailed - and interesting - information. Cheers, RickO -
Re: What was the way in which gold was assayed during the Alaskan gold rush?
Hope, Alaska, had an assay office according to this website: https://sites.google.com/site/hopehistoricalsite2//home/history " Summer 1897 was the start of the Klondike Gold Rush, but a few thousand came to Cook Inlet also. The summer of 1898 saw 8,000 prospectors on Cook Inlet. For a few weeks that summer, Sunrise City,… -
Re: What was the way in which gold was assayed during the Alaskan gold rush?
(See From Mint to Mint for info ,,,,,,,,Please Roger, you must be accurate. How will people find your book ? :) -
Re: What was the way in which gold was assayed during the Alaskan gold rush?
There was never a US Assay Office in Alaska. There were many private assayers. A private assayer would cut a small chip from the corner of a bar, determine the purity and stamp that plus weight and value on the bar. The chip was often the assayer's fee. This determined how much value was credited to the miner, but always… -
Re: What was the way in which gold was assayed during the Alaskan gold rush?
http://www.yukonmuseums.ca/treasures/dcm/12.html
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