PAMLICO

NAME: Pamlico COUNTY: Mineral ROADS: 4WD GRID: 1 CLIMATE: Hot summer BEST TIME TO VISIT: Spring, Fall

COMMENTS: 25 miles west of mina via the mina-garfield flat road. REMAINS: Mine ruins remain.

The palmico mine was said to have produced several hundred thousand dollars of gold ore in the 1870's and the 1880's,and leasers worked the lodes later while placer miners operated here during ww1.A twenty stamp mill was active later in the 1920's but by the middle of the next decade was dismantled.The pamlicoand its contemporarythe la panta mine,3 miles northeast,may have produced as much as $1 million ,principally in gold.The placer gravel at pamlicowas obtained by drift mining this shaft was sunk 170 feet befor bedrock was encountered.After gravel was discharged ito the bin,it was seperated into coarse material and gold-bearing fines were recovered in the riffles in the long sluicebox.Mine ruins remain. Submitted by: Brian engen

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