Miscellaneous Mining Items/Gold Sample Kit

Miscellaneous Mining Items

Gold Sample Kit.jpg - GOLD SAMPLE KIT - Miners’ gold sample kit from the estate of George R. Noble of Spokane, WA; kit includes specimen bottles in a leather case 7 1/4 x 3 1/2 x 1 3/4 in., most include small amounts of gold flakes and small nuggets; three gold specimens in matrix and 1 cm gold nugget included along with newspaperarticles on Noble’s mining ventures and several assay reports from 1916-17 and later on gold samples thought to be included with kit (George R. Noble was a mining entrepreneur in the early 1900s with gold mining investments from Alaska to the northwestern US. During the late 1920s and early 1930s he organized the Silver Basin Consolidated Mining Co. and Humboldt Mining andMilling Co. in the Coeur d’Alenes of Idaho and a placer mining operation near Marcus, WA on a bar of the Columbia River.)

Gold Sample Kit | GOLD SAMPLE KIT - Miners’ gold sample kit from the estate of George R. Noble of Spokane, WA; kit includes specimen bottles in a leather case 7 1/4 x 3 1/2 x 1 3/4 in., most include small amounts of gold flakes and small nuggets; three gold specimens in matrix and 1 cm gold nugget included along with newspaper articles on Noble’s mining ventures and several assay reports from 1916-17 and later on gold samples thought to be included with kit (George R. Noble was a mining entrepreneur in the early 1900s with gold mining investments from Alaska to the northwestern US. During the late 1920s and early 1930s he organized the Silver Basin Consolidated Mining Co. and Humboldt Mining and Milling Co. in the Coeur d’Alenes of Idaho and a placer mining operation near Marcus, WA on a bar of the Columbia River.)

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