Kanab — Kane County

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Kanab — Kane County

Gold Mining Site UT • Kane County County
Description
If you go east of Kanab about 20 miles on a dirt road to the Paria River and ghost town settlement of Paria there was some placer mining conducted. The area around the Vermilion Cliff's had a few small mines for gold and silver. In the regional shinerup clays, finely disseminated gold was worked. Paria was the site of an old gold rush in 1911, when considerable machinery was freighted in from Marysvale to hydraulic the clays. Remains of an assay office still stand, but the gold content runs a...
Historical Notes
Source: Tom Ashworth's Prospectors Cache (tomashworth.com / Mike Higbee / 49erMike). Author: Tom Ashworth. Original page: kane_ut.shtml. State index: https://web.archive.org/web/20040830075749/http://www.tomashworth.com/goldloc.shtml Area: Kanab. Map coordinates are an approximate county centroid — not a precise claim site. If you go east of Kanab about 20 miles on a dirt road to the Paria River and ghost town settlement of Paria there was some placer mining conducted. The area around the Vermilion Cliff's had a few small mines for gold and silver. In the regional shinerup clays, finely disseminated gold was worked. Paria was the site of an old gold rush in 1911, when considerable machinery was freighted in from Marysvale to hydraulic the clays. Remains of an assay office still stand, but the gold content runs about a few cents a yard.
Status / Verification historical_site — Legendary or approximate

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