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| ==== Chronology of Mining in the United States ==== | | ==== Chronology of Mining in the United States ==== |
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| 1763 First coal mines in what is now Richmond, Virginia<ref name="infomine">Global InfoMine ''Mining in USA'' http://www.infomine.com/countries/SOIR/USA/ 1990-2010<ref> | | 1763 First coal mines in what is now Richmond, Virginia<references /> |
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| 1785 The government created a Land Ordinance which specified that one-third of all mineral lands were to be reserved for the United States.
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| 1807 Legislation provided for leasing of the mineral lands held by the government.
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| 1848 First Coal miner's union formed in Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania
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| 1848 California gold rush
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| 1866 The government Act of 26 July 1866 provided for mining claimants to be able to obtain a patent for their mineral lands. The requirements for a patent for lode claims were that the claimant must have made a significant amount of improvement on the claim and must pay a certain amount per acre. By 1870, this included placer claims.<ref name="Hone">Hone, Wade E. ''Land and Property Research in the United States'' Ancestry Incorporated, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1997<ref>
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| 1880 Gold strike in Juneau, Alaska
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| 1872 The General Mining Law was established which defined mineral lands as those which held "any valuable minerals." <br>
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| 1879 First oil wells drilled in California
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| 1887 First oil wells drilled in Texas
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| ==== Mines in the United States ====
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| The largest Coal Producing States in 1889 were Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, West Virginia, Iowa, Alabama, Indiana, Colorado, Kentucky, Kansas and Tennessee <ref>Source: ''Thirteenth Census of the United States, Vol. XI, Mines and Quarries, 1913,'' Table 4, p. 187. As quoted in Wikipedia ''History of Coal Mining in the United States.''</ref>
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