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Landslides are known to have occurred in the Santa Cruz Mountains during both the October 8, 1865, earthquake (M 6.5) ... [Read more]
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Prepared by C. McK. Laizure,
Mining Engineer of the California State Mining Bureau
Gold occurs in Santa Cruz County in auriferous black sand deposits, in placer deposits in a number of creeks and gulches on the sides of Ben Lomond Mountain, and in small quartz seams on Ben ..." [More]
Excerpted from Mineral Survey of Santa Cruz County - Gold by C. McK. Laizure
