Mines 
County 
Lode 
producing' 
Gold (lode 
and placer) 
Silver (lode 
and placer) 
 
Placer 
Troy ounces 
Value 
Troy ounces 
Value 
 
Amador                      
Butte                  
Calaveras                     
Del Norte                    
 (2) 2 $701  4 140 (2) 10 350 1 2 70 
1 
4 
  
$2 
6 
ElDorado                    
(2) 27 945 
1 
2 
Fresno                       
Inyo                   
Los Angeles                   
 (2) 742 25,9706  169 5,915 1 125 4,375 
109 
134,663 
W 
169 
208 727 
W 
Mariposa                
Merced                      
Nevada                 
Placer                  
5 (2) 80 2,800 (2) 27 9451 5 300 10,5001 5 72 2,520 
16 
3 
27 
8 
25 
5 
42 
12 
Plumas                      
Sacramento              
San Bernardino           
Shasta                       
Sierra                  
Stanislaus                    
Tulare                       
Tuolumne               
Yuba                        
Undistributed 3                   
 3 39 1,3652 (2) 1,119 39,1654 (2) 7 245 (2) 96 3,3601 3 801 28,035 (2) 98
3,430 (2) 18 6301 2 18 630 1 35,892 1,256,2207 4 922 32,270 
3 
965 
311 
9 
180 
485 
2 
W 
791 
6,937 
5 
1,495 
482 
14 
279 
752 
3 
W 
1,226 
10,752 
Total              
 29 25 40,570 1,419,950 
144,515 
223,998 
 
Copper 
 
 
Amador 
Butte 
Calaveras 
Del Norte 
ElDorado 
Fresno 
Inyo                    
LosAngeles 
Mariposa 
Merced 
Nevada 
Placer 
Plumas 
Sacramento 
San Bernardino           
Shasta 
Sierra 
Stanislaus               
Tulare 
Tuolumne 
Yuba 
Indistributed3            
W W 3,247,800 $454,692 
                                                           
                                                           
                                                           
                                                           
                                                           
                                                           
                                                           
 W W 3,500 490 
                                                           
                                                           
 300 $115 212,500 29,750 
                                                           
                                            
                                                           
 1,575,700 602,327 6,200 868 
 W W 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
  
 W W 
 
882,000 $122,095 
$70 
142 
356 
70 
~ 
26,139 
669,334 
4,375 
2,825 
950 
10,542 
2,532 
1,370 
40,660 
1,217 
 
~ 
28,314 
34,047 
633 
630 
1,257,446 
768,312 
 
 
 
2,854,285 
Lead 
Pounds Value Pounds Value Pounds Value 
Zinc 
Total 
value 
Total 1,576,000 
602,442 3,470,000 485,800 882,000 122,095 
* W Withheld to avoid disclosing individual company confidential data; included
with "Undistributed." 
 1 Excludes itinerant prospectors, "snipers," "high-graders," and others
who gave no evidence of legal right to property. 
 2 From property not classed as a mine. 
 
 5lncludes Alpine, Imperial, Kern, Riverside, San Joaquin, Siskiyou, and
Trinity Counties and counties Indicated by symbol W. 
 THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF CALIFORNIA 159 
 
 
Table 19.—Mine production of gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc in
1967, 
by counties, in terms of recoverable metals