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Historic gold producers in Towns County (USGS)

USGS records 9 historic gold producers in Towns County: 9 past producers and 0 listed as producers or plants. For 6 of them USGS gives an output size (6 small). The most common deposit type is placer Au-PGE (3 sites).

Show the 9 sites

Site	USGS status	Output	Commodities	Years
Hooper & Berong Prospect	Past producer	small	Gold	n/a
M. Kinsey Mine	Past producer	small	Gold	n/a
Malden Prospect	Past producer	small	Gold	n/a
Murdock Vein Mine	Past producer	small	Gold	n/a
Newton Mine	Past producer	small	Gold	n/a
Wills Creek Mine	Past producer	small	Gold	n/a
Chastian Placer Mine	Past producer	n/a	Gold	n/a
Newton Placer Mine	Past producer	n/a	Gold	n/a
Wellborn Hill Mine	Past producer	n/a	Gold	n/a

Source: USGS Mineral Resources Data System (retrieved 2026-10-13). The database was last updated around 2011, positions can be approximate and "producer" does not mean a mine is operating today. Sites already matched to an MSHA record are shown in the MSHA tables.

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