GOLD PROSPECTING FOR AMATEURS: Elementary Placer Mining Methods and Gold Saving Devices
Los Angeles: The California State Department of Education, 1940. First Edition. Wraps. "This pamphlet is in no sense a treatise on placer mining. It is intended to give simple practical instructions and advice to the inexperienced placer prospector and miner more particularly residents of the state who are more or less acquainted with conditions here and who must live as cheaply as possible, with some chance at least partly to support themselves." 47 p., mimeographed, with textual illustrations. Quarto. Stapled and bound in printed paper wrappers with a cloth tape spine. Some general toning and wear along the extremities. A rather scarce WPA publication, OCLC locates only six copies. Good. Item #68740
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