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==== Chronology of Mining in the United States ==== | ==== Chronology of Mining in the United States ==== | ||
1763 First coal mines in what is now Richmond, Virginia< | 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> | ||
1785 The government created a Land Ordinance which specified that one-third of all mineral lands were to be reserved for the United States. | |||
1807 Legislation provided for leasing of the mineral lands held by the government. | |||
1847 Ducktown, Polk county, Tennessee began copper mining in 1847 and continued into the later 1900's. | |||
1848 First Coal miner's union formed in Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania | |||
1848 California gold rush | |||
1863 First mining of copper in the Bingham Canyon mine (Kennecott Copper Mine)began. | |||
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> | |||
1873 Copper mining begins in Arizona in Clifton (Morenci), Arizona. Some of the other Arizona mines were in Jerome, Ajo, Bisbee and Globe. Arizona is one of the major copper producing states in the nation. | |||
1872 The General Mining Law was established which defined mineral lands as those which held "any valuable minerals." | |||
1879 First oil wells drilled in California | |||
1879 Copper mining begins in Tyrone, Grant county, New Mexico and has become one of the top copper producing areas in the nation. | |||
1880 Gold strike in Juneau, Alaska | |||
1882 Copper discovered in the Butte, Montana area and it quickly became one of the leading copper producing areas in the United States. | |||
1887 First oil wells drilled in Texas | |||
==== Mines in the United States ==== | |||
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 | |||
For a more complete list of copper mines in the United States visit the Wikipedia article entitled: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_mining_in_the_United_States Copper mining in the United States] | |||