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San Luis

La Carolina gold town

Gold ground Documented siteLicence or permit

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

GoldGold
Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: BLM Alaska (Public domain), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1790s gold camp in trachyte hills, now a tourism village with mine tours and panning

Documented historic goldfield with an established visitor mine.

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