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Sign of the Times (Harry Styles song)
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"Sign of the Times"
Single by Harry Styles
from the album Harry Styles
Released
7 April 2017 (2017-04-07)
Format
Digital download
streaming
Genre
Pop rock[1]
soft rock[2]
glam rock[3]
Length
5:40 (album version)
4:06 (radio edit)
Label
Erskine
Columbia[4]
Songwriter(s)
Harry Styles
Jeff Bhasker
Mitch Rowland
Ryan Nasci
Alex Salibian
Tyler Johnson
Producer(s)
Bhasker
Salibian
Johnson
Harry Styles singles chronology
"Sign of the Times"
(2017) "Two Ghosts"
(2017)
"Sign of the Times"
(2017) "Two Ghosts"
(2017)
Music video
"Sign of the Times" on YouTube
"Sign of the Times" is the debut solo single by English singer and songwriter Harry Styles for his self-titled debut studio album. It is his first single outside of the boy band One Direction. Released on 7 April 2017, by Erskine and Columbia Records, it was written by Styles, Ryan Nasci, Mitch Rowland and its producers Jeff Bhasker, Tyler Johnson, and Alex Salibian.[1] Musically, it was defined by critics as a multi-genre ballad, including pop rock, soft rock and glam rock. Its music video was released on 8 May.
Contents
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1 Background and release
2 Composition
3 Music video
4 Critical reception
5 Chart performance
6 Live performances
7 Charts
8 Certifications
9 References
10 External links
Background and release[edit]
Early rumours about Styles going on a solo career sparkled in 2015, when it was reported that Sony Music wanted Styles to release a solo album during One Direction's hiatus.[5] By the end of 2015, four new songs written and performed by Styles were registered on the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) online database, which was believed to be for his potential debut solo album at the time.[6] Shortly after, Styles signed up with American agent Jeffrey Azoff and moved to Columbia Records.[7] In September 2016, Styles was in the cover of Another Magazine, which led the media to expect a new album in the future.[7]
In February 2017, chairman and CEO of Columbia Records, Rob Stringer, admitted that the album was close to finish and called it "authentic".[8] A month later, it was reported that the album sounded like David Bowie and Queen, while also being revealed that he worked on the album with only one producer, Jeff Bhasker. It was also hinted that the lead single would be released in late April or early May and it sounded "like it would be a smash in any decade".[9] In the same month, US radio host Elvis Duran accidentally revealed during his show that Styles' debut single would be released on 7 April 2017.[10] On 25 March, Styles teased the new single with a television ad during The Voice UK.[11] On 31 March, the singer revealed through social media that his single is titled "Sign of the Times".[12] On 7 April, the song premiered during Nick Grimshaw's breakfast show on BBC Radio 1.[13]
Composition[edit]
The song is a pop rock, soft rock, piano ballad.[1][14] According to a Billboard writer, it "folds in psychedelic soul, indie rock and spacey pop".[15] The "apocalyptic"[16] power ballad shows influences from 1970s British rock.[17] In an interview with Rolling Stone, Styles stated, "The song is written from a point of view as if a mother was giving birth to a child and there's a complication. The mother is told, 'The child is fine, but you're not going to make it.' The mother has five minutes to tell the child, 'Go forth and conquer.'"[18]
According to the song credits provided by Styles' label, the track was co-written by the song's producer, Jeff Bhasker, as well as his frequent collaborators and track co-producers Alex Salibian and Tyler Johnson. Songwriters also include Mitch Rowland, Ryan Nasci and Styles himself. Rowland played guitar and drums, Nasci the bass and Bhasker the piano, keyboard and lap steel parts. The track was recorded at Village Studios in Los Angeles and Geejam Hotel Recording Studio in Port Antonio, Jamaica. The song was mixed by Mark "Spike" Stent.[19]
Music video[edit]
Directed by Woodkid, the song's music video was released on 8 May.[20] It features Styles singing in a meadow, and soaring in the skies, walking on water. It was described to be Styles "auditioning to be Marvel Comics next superhero or in a new biblical epic". It was filmed on the Isle of Skye in Scotland.[21] The video's stunt pilot, Will Banks, stated that Styles flew more than 1,550 feet high during the shoot. Banks also claimed that no green screen or CGI effects were employed during filming.[22] A stunt double was used for some scenes.[23]
Critical reception[edit]
Billboard's Gil Kaufman wrote, "Every artist is an accumulation of their influences, and in [this song] they come fast and furious, as Styles appears to be both showing his range and making a clear effort to step boldly away from the manufactured, plastic pop of his past". Kaufman opined it "rakes in influences from Pink Floyd and David Bowie to Queen, Spacehog, Suede, Coldplay, The Beatles, Eric Carmen and Prince".[15] Also for Billboard, Jason Lipshutz wrote it is "resolute, determined, wholly committed to its messaging and sound, radio trends be damned. Although it wears its influences on its sleeve (Bowie) nothing about this single bends toward someone else’s expectations". He concluded saying the song "sounds effortless, but to arrive without any incomplete features is an accomplishment in a music industry where pop artists are expected to produce new music at an unsustainable rate".[24]
Tim Jonze of The Guardian described it as "a ballad, but not so much in the boyband style" and compared the song to the music of American indie rock band The Walkmen.[25] Jonze also addressed early rumors that the song would be influenced by the music of David Bowie, noting "If it is indeed Bowie-esque, then it’s the Bowie of Hunky Dory".[25] Jamieson Cox in Pitchfork felt the "skyscraping Bowie ballad" manages to sound like both fun.'s "We Are Young" and Coldplay's "The Scientist".[26] NPR's Ann Powers argued the song mirrors more closely "Britpop anthems" like Blur's "Tender" or The Verve's "Bittersweet Symphony" "than anything Bowie released in his prime".[27]
Writing for Rolling Stone, Brittany Spanos thought it "aligns much more with the Seventies-inspired pop-rock of One Direction's more recent albums like Made in the A.M.".[28] Anjali Raguraman from The Straits Times considered it the "strongest" track on the album, saying "the conviction of his delivery is beyond his years".[29]
In The Atlantic, Spencer Kornhaber wrote the song "continues with One Direction's po-mo project of recycling classic-rock sounds as bubblegum. But he’s now embracing such sounds with more abandon, less chirpiness, some trend bucking, and the kind of uplifting lyrics that nod to planetary anxiety". Kornhaber described the song opens with ballad piano, "encroaching" violins, and Styles "crooning in pain", "but then there’s the bwang of a guitar and the song rockets into an arena-rock reverie that feels so, so familiar to anyone who remembers the '90s but also so, so foreign to today’s landscape".[30]
In The Telegraph, Alice Vincent described it as a "swooning piano ballad with somewhat overdone production" and opined, "it is also... a little boring. A big, blousy singalong which shows off Styles's vocal prowess – especially with an unexpected, slightly yelping falsetto bridge – but isn't enormously fun".[14] Since it was released on the 30th anniversary of Prince's Sign o' the Times, Spin's Andy Cush commented, "it’s clear that this is Styles’s attempt to distinguish himself as an artist with real depth. But the music itself has almost nothing to do with Prince–instead, think Oasis, Elton John at his most bombastic, '70s John Lennon". Cush noted it "has only those three chords, and it goes straight for cruising altitude with an onslaught of cymbals and guitar on the first chorus, expecting you to be moved without pausing to consider why".[31]
Spin staff ranked it as the 13th best boy-band solo debut single.[32] Billboard staff considered it the 5th best song of the first semester of 2017.[33]
Chart performance[edit]
"Sign of the Times" reached number one on the UK Singles Chart with a combined sales of 62,900 units.[34] In its first week, it sold 39,000 downloads together with 3.5 million streams that give 23,472 equivalent units, pausing Ed Sheeran's run of 13 weeks at the top of the chart with "Shape of You".[35]
In the United States, the song debuted at number four on the Billboard Hot 100. In its first week, it sold 142,000 copies (topping Digital Songs), earned 16.5 million streams and 23 million airplay impressions.[36]
Live performances[edit]
Styles performed the song on 15 April 2017 episode of Saturday Night Live's 42nd season.[37] On 21 April, Styles appeared on the BBC's The Graham Norton Show, for his first solo performance in his native UK.[38] He also performed the song on The Late Late Show with James Corden.[16] Styles performed the song on The Today Show on May 9.[39] He also performed it at The Garage in London, England on 13 May and at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, California on 19 May.[40] He performed it live on a French talk show, The Quotidien, on 26 April 2017.[41]
Charts[edit]
Chart (2017)
Peak
position
Argentina (Monitor Latino)[42]
10
Australia (ARIA)[43]
1
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[44]
2
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[45]
8
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia)[46]
4
Brazil Hot 100 (Billboard)[47]
4
Brazil Hot Pop Songs (Billboard)[48]
20
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[49]
6
Canada AC (Billboard)[50]
7
Canada CHR/Top 40 (Billboard)[51]
14
Canada Hot AC (Billboard)[52]
6
Colombia (National-Report)[53]
83
Croatia (HRT)[54]
1
Czech Republic (Rádio Top 100)[55]
9
Czech Republic (Singles Digitál Top 100)[56]
5
Denmark (Tracklisten)[57]
20
Finland Download (Latauslista)[58]
1
France (SNEP)[59]
3
Germany (Official German Charts)[60]
20
Hungary (Rádiós Top 40)[61]
31
Hungary (Single Top 40)[62]
5
Iceland (RÚV)[63]
2
Ireland (IRMA)[64]
6
Italy (FIMI)[65]
9
Latvia (Latvijas Top 40)[66]
1
Lebanon (Lebanese Top 20)[67]
8
Malaysia (RIM)[68]
14
Mexico (Billboard Ingles Airplay)[69]
1
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[70]
16
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[71]
26
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[72]
6
Norway (VG-lista)[73]
20
Paraguay (Monitor Latino)[74]
13
Philippines (Philippine Hot 100)[75]
52
Poland (Polish Airplay Top 100)[76]
1
Portugal (AFP)[77]
6
Scotland (Official Charts Company)[78]
1
Slovakia (Rádio Top 100)[79]
5
Slovakia (Singles Digitál Top 100)[80]
2
Slovenia (SloTop50)[81]
15
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[82]
4
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[83]
15
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[84]
4
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[85]
1
US Billboard Hot 100[86]
4
US Adult Alternative Songs (Billboard)[87]
25
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)[88]
21
US Adult Top 40 (Billboard)[89]
12
US Mainstream Top 40 (Billboard)[90]
12
Certifications[edit]
Region
Certification
Certified units/Sales
Australia (ARIA)[91]
2× Platinum 140,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria)[92]
Gold 15,000*
Belgium (BEA)[93]
Platinum 30,000*
Canada (Music Canada)[94]
Platinum 80,000^
Denmark (IFPI Denmark)[95]
Gold 30,000^
France (SNEP)[96]
Gold 75,000*
Germany (BVMI)[97]
Gold 200,000^
Italy (FIMI)[98]
Platinum 50,000
Mexico (AMPROFON)[99]
Gold 30,000*
New Zealand (RMNZ)[100]
Gold 15,000*
Poland (ZPAV)[101]
Platinum 20,000*
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[102]
Gold 20,000^
Sweden (GLF)[103]
Platinum 40,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[104]
Gold 400,000
United States (RIAA)[105]
Gold 500,000
*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
sales+streaming figures based on certification alone
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External links[edit]
Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
"Sign of the Times" (audio) on YouTube
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Gold mining in the United States
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US annual gold production, 1840-2012.
Gold mining in the United States has taken place continually since the discovery of gold at the Reed farm in North Carolina in 1799. The first documented occurrence of gold was in Virginia in 1782.[1] Some minor gold production took place in North Carolina as early as 1793, but created no excitement. The discovery on the Reed farm in 1799 which was identified as gold in 1802 and subsequently mined marked the first commercial production.[2]
The large scale production of gold started with the California Gold Rush in 1848.
The closure of gold mines during World War II by the War Production Board Limitation Order No. 208 in autumn 1942 was a major impact on the production until the end of the war.[3]
US gold production greatly increased during the 1980s, due to high gold prices and the use of heap leaching to recover gold from disseminated low-grade deposits in Nevada and other states.
In 2016 the United States produced 209 tonnes of gold, worth about US$8.5 billion, and 6.7% of world production, making it the fourth-largest gold-producing nation, behind China, Australia and Russia. Most gold produced today in the US comes from large open-pit heap leach mines in the state of Nevada. The US is a net exporter of gold.[4][5]
Contents
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1 Gold mining by state
1.1 Alabama
1.2 Alaska
1.3 Arizona
1.4 California
1.5 Colorado
1.6 Florida
1.7 Georgia
1.8 Idaho
1.9 Maryland
1.10 Michigan
1.11 Montana
1.12 Nevada
1.13 New Mexico
1.14 North Carolina
1.15 Oregon
1.16 Pennsylvania
1.17 South Carolina
1.18 South Dakota
1.19 Tennessee
1.20 Texas
1.21 Utah
1.22 Virginia
1.23 Washington
1.24 Wyoming
1.25 Moraine gold
2 Gold mining royalties
3 See also
4 References
5 External links
Gold mining by state[edit]
Alabama[edit]
Gold was discovered in Alabama about 1830, shortly following the Georgia Gold Rush. The principal districts were the Arbacoochee district in Cleburne County, mostly from placer deposits, and the Hog Mountain district in Tallapoosa County, which produced 24,000 troy ounces (750 kg) from veins in schist.[6]
Alaska[edit]
Main article: Gold mining in Alaska
Russian explorers discovered placer gold in the Kenai River in 1848, but no gold was produced. Gold mining started in 1870 from placers southeast of Juneau.[7] Alaska produced a total of 40,300,000 troy ounces (1,250,000 kg) of gold from 1880 through the end of 2007. In 2015 Alaskan mines produced 873,984 troy ounces (27,183.9 kg) of gold, 12.7% of US production. The largest gold producer is the Fort Knox mine, a large open pit and cyanide leaching operation in the Fairbanks mining district. Fort Knox produced 401,553 troy ounces (12,489.7 kg) of gold in 2015. The Pogo mine (283,000 ounces) and Kensington mine (128,865 ounces) gold mines and the Greens Creek polymetallic mine (60,566 ounces) accounted for the remainder of 2015 gold production.[8]
Arizona[edit]
Arizona has produced more than 16 million troy ounces (498 tonnes) of gold.
Gold mining in Arizona reportedly began in 1774 when Spanish priest Manuel Lopez directed Papago Indians to wash gold from gravel on the flanks of the Quijotoa Mountains, Pima County. Gold mining continued there until 1849, when the Mexican miners were lured away by the California Gold Rush. Other gold mining under Spanish and Mexican rule took place in the Oro Blanco district of Santa Cruz County, and the Arivaca district, Pima County.[9]
Mountain man Pauline Weaver discovered placer gold on the east side of the Colorado River in 1862. Weaver's discovery started the Colorado River Gold Rush to the now ghost town of La Paz, Arizona and other locations along the river in the ensuing years.
Gold Road mine, Oatman, Arizona.
The most prominent of these were those of the San Francisco district, which includes the towns of Oatman, Bullhead City and Katherine in Mohave County was discovered in 1863 or 1864, but saw little activity until a rush to the district occurred in 1902. The district produced 2.0 million ounces of gold through 1959.[10]
The gold-bearing quartz veins of the Vulture Mine, southwest of Wickenburg, in Maricopa County were discovered in 1863. The mine produced 366,000 troy ounces (11,400 kg) of gold through 1959.[11]
The last gold mine to operate in Arizona was the Gold Road mine at Oatman, which shut down in 1998. Patriot Gold is exploration drilling at the Moss mine at Oatman.[12]
In 2006, all of Arizona's gold production came as a byproduct of copper mining.
California[edit]
Main article: Gold in California
Spanish prospectors found gold in the Potholes district between 1775 and 1780, along the Colorado River, in present Imperial County, California, about ten miles northeast from Yuma, Arizona. The gold was recovered from dry placers. Other placer deposits on the west bank of the Colorado River were quickly found, including the Picacho and Cargo Muchacho districts.
Placer gold deposits were found at San Ysidro in San Diego County in 1828, San Francisquito Canyon and Placerita Canyon in Los Angeles County in 1835 and 1842, respectively
Gold miners excavate a gold-bearing bluff with jets of water at a placer mine in Dutch Flat, California sometime between 1857 and 1870.
Major gold mining in California began during the California Gold Rush. Gold was found by James Marshall at Sutters Mill, property of John Sutter, in present-day Coloma. In 1849, people started hearing about the gold and after just a few years San Francisco's population increased to thousands. Gold production in California peaked in 1852, at 3.9 million troy ounces (121 tonnes) produced in that year. But the placer deposits worked in the early years were quickly exhausted, and production crashed. Hardrock mining (in California called quartz mining) began in 1849, and placer mining by hydraulic mining began in 1852. Despite the new mining methods, by 1865 production was 867,000 troy ounces (27,000 kg), less than one-quarter of peak production.
Production sank to 412,000 troy ounces (12,800 kg) in 1929, but then soared to more than 1,400,000 troy ounces (44,000 kg) for each year 1939 through 1941, after the price was raised from $20.67 to $35 per ounce. However, the federal government, in War Production Board Order L-208, ordered gold mines closed, to free up resources for the war effort during World War II, and production fell to 148,000 troy ounces (4,600 kg) in 1943. Post-war gold production never reached the peak of the early 1940s, as inflation and the fixed price of gold eroded its value.[13]
The largest gold-mining district in California is the famous Mother Lode of the Sierra Nevada. Found in the early 1850s, the lode is a zone one to four miles wide and running 120 miles northwest-southeast from El Dorado County in the north, through Amador, Calaveras, and Tuolumne counties, to Mariposa County in the south. The gold of the Mother Lode is in quartz veins within phyllite, schist, slate, and greenstone. Through 1959, the Mother Lode produced about 13.3 million troy ounces (414 tonnes) of gold.[14]
The second-largest gold-mining district in California was Grass Valley-Nevada City district in Nevada County. Gold in Holocene gravels was found in 1850, followed a few years later by hydraulic mining of Tertiary gravels. By 1880, most of the mining had shifted to lode deposits, such as the Empire Mine. Through 1959, the district produced 10.4 million troy ounces (323 tonnes) of lode gold, and 2.2 million troy ounces (68.4 tonnes) of placer gold.[15]
The rich placer deposits of the Columbia Basin-Jamestown-Sonora district were found in 1853. Almost all the gold was found at the base of Quaternary gravels, but some drift mines were worked in Tertiary gravels. Total production was about 5.9 million troy ounces (183 tonnes) of gold.[16]
In 2007, California produced 9,400 troy ounces (290 kg) of gold from two mines. The Mesquite mine in Imperial County restarted active mining in 2007, having been inactive since 2001; now owned by New Gold, it produces more than 100,000 troy ounces (3,100 kg) of gold per year.[17] The only other gold producer in the state, the Briggs mine in Inyo County stopped mining in 2004, but continues to produce small amounts of gold from the leach pads, from previously mined ore.[18]
See also: Argonaut Mine, Gold in California, and Kennedy Mine
Colorado[edit]
Main article: Gold mining in Colorado
Gold was discovered in 1858 during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush in the vicinity of present-day Denver in 1858, but the deposits were small. The first important gold discoveries in Colorado were in the Central City-Idaho Springs district in January 1859. Only one Colorado mine continues to produce gold, the Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mine at Victor near Colorado Springs, an open-pit heap leach operation owned by Newmont Mining Corporation, which produced ~350,000 troy ounces (11,000 kg) of gold in 2016.[19]
Florida[edit]
Small amounts of gold were mined commercially in North Eastern Florida during the late 19th Century, at the site where Mike Roess Gold Head Branch State Park is located today. No records are extant on the amount of gold produced, but the find was insufficient to keep the operation running commercially, and the small amount of pay dirt was depleted within a matter of months.[20]
Georgia[edit]
Main articles: Georgia Gold Rush and Georgia Gold Belt
Georgia is credited with a total historical production of 871,000 troy ounces (27,100 kg) of gold from 1830 through 1959.[21] Although historically important, the state is not currently a gold producer.
See also:
Battle Branch Mine
Calhoun Mine
Consolidated Mine
Crisson Mine
Franklin-Crieghton Mine
Free Jim Mine
Loud Mine
Sixes mine
Idaho[edit]
Gold was first discovered in Idaho in 1860, in Pierce at the juncture where Canal Creek meets Orofino Creek.
The leading historical gold-producing district is the Boise Basin in Boise County, which was discovered in 1862 and produced 2.9 million troy ounces (90.2 tonnes), mostly from placers.[22]
The French Creek-Florence district in Idaho County began in the 1860s, and has produced about 1 million troy ounces (31 tonnes) from placers.
The Silver City district in Owyhee County began producing in 1863, and made over 1 million troy ounces (31 tonnes), mostly from lode deposits.
The Coeur d’Alene district in Shoshone County has made 44,000 troy ounces (1,400 kg) of gold as byproduct to silver mining.[23]
In 2006, active gold mines in Idaho included the Silver Strand mine and the Bond mine.[24]
Maryland[edit]
Gold was reported in Maryland as early as 1830, but no production resulted. Placer gold was discovered at Great Falls near Washington, DC in 1861 during the American Civil War by Union soldiers from California. After the war a number of mines were opened on gold-bearing quartz veins in Montgomery County. No gold production has been reported since 1951. Total production was about 6,000 troy ounces (190 kg).[25]
Michigan[edit]
Approximately 29,000 troy ounces (900 kg) of gold were produced from the Ropes gold mine northeast of Ishpeming in Marquette County, Michigan. The underground mine, originally operated from 1880 to 1897, and reopened from 1983–1989,[26] extracted gold from quartz veins in peridotite.[27]
Montana[edit]
Swedish gold panners in 1860s Montana.
Gold was first discovered in Montana in 1852, but mining did not begin until 1862, when gold placers were discovered at Bannack, Montana in 1862. The resulting gold rush resulted in more placer discoveries, including those at Virginia City in 1863, and at Helena and Butte in 1864.[28] In 1867, the Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode was located.
The Butte district, although mined primarily for copper, produced 2.9 million ounces (91 tones) of gold through 1990, almost all as a byproduct of copper production.[29]
Current active hardrock gold mines include the Montana Tunnels mine, and the Golden Sunlight mine. Active gold placers include the Browns Gulch placer and the Confederate Gulch placer. Gold is also produced from three platinum mines in the Stillwater igneous complex: the Stillwater mine, the Lodestar mine, and the East Boulder Project.[30]
Nevada[edit]
Main article: Gold mining in Nevada
Nevada is the leading gold-producing state in the nation, in 2015 producing 5,339,659 ounces (166.1 tonnes), representing 78% of US gold and 5.4% of the world's production. Much of the gold in Nevada comes from large open pit mining and with heap leaching recovery. A number of major mining companies, including Newmont Mining, Barrick Gold and Kinross Gold, operate gold mines in the state. Active major mines include Cortez, Twin Creeks, Betz-Post, Jerritt Canyon and Getchell.[4][31]
Newmont and Barrick operate the largest mining operations, on the prolific Carlin Trend, one of the world's richest mining districts.[31]
New Mexico[edit]
Gold was first discovered in New Mexico in 1828 in the “Old Placers” district in the Ortiz Mountains, Santa Fe County, New Mexico. The placer gold discovery was followed by discovery of a nearby lode deposit.[32]
In 1877, two prospectors collected float in the area of the future Opportunity Mine near Hillsboro, New Mexico, which was assayed at $160 per ton in gold and silver. Soon, ore was discovered at the nearby Rattlesnake vein and a placer deposit of gold was found in November at the Rattlesnake and Wicks gulches. Total production prior to 1904 was about $6,750,000.[33]
In 2007 all gold production in New Mexico (13,000 troy ounces (400 kg)) came as a byproduct of copper mining from two large open pit mines in Grant County. However, two primary gold mines are being readied for production: the Northstar mine in Rio Arriba County, and the San Lorenzo Claims mine in Socorro County.[34]
North Carolina[edit]
Main article: Carolina Gold Rush
North Carolina was the site of the first gold rush in the United States, following the discovery of a 17-pound (7.7 kg) gold nugget by 12-year-old Conrad Reed in a creek at his father’s farm in 1799. The Reed Gold Mine, southwest of Georgeville in Cabarrus County, North Carolina produced about 50,000 troy ounces (1,600 kg) of gold from lode and placer deposits.[35]
Gold was produced from 15 districts, almost all in the Piedmont region of the state. Total gold production is estimated at 1.2 million troy ounces (37.3 tonnes).
Oregon[edit]
Although gold mines are spread over much of Oregon, almost all of the gold produced has come from two principal areas: the Klamath Mountains in southwest Oregon, including Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson and Josephine counties; and the Blue Mountains in northeast Oregon, mostly in Baker and Grant counties.
Prospectors from Illinois discovered placer gold in the Klamath Mountains of southwest Oregon in 1850, starting a rush to the area. Lode gold deposits were also discovered.
Travellers along the Oregon Trail bound for the Willamette Valley are said to have discovered gold in northeastern Oregon in 1845, but mining in earnest did not begin until 1861.[36]
Pennsylvania[edit]
About 37,000 troy ounces (1,200 kg) of gold was produced from the Cornwall iron mine five miles south of Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. Although the deposit produced iron since 1742, no gold was reported from the mine until 1878.[37]
South Carolina[edit]
Gold mines in the Carolina Slate Belt - USGS.
South Carolina had a number of lode gold mines along the Carolina Slate Belt.[38]
The Haile deposit was discovered in Lancaster County in 1827, and at least 257,000 troy ounces (8,000 kg) of gold were extracted intermittently between then and 1942, when the gold mine was ordered closed as nonessential to the war effort. Beginning in 1951, the deposit was mined for associated sericite, which was used as a white filler.[39] Gold is associated with silicic, kaolinitic, and pyritic alteration of greenschist-grade felsic metavolcanics.[40] The mine was reopened as an open pit in the 1980s, and operated until 1992. Kinross Gold Corporation's reclamation of the Haile site was nominated for a US Bureau of Land Management "Hardrock Mineral Environmental Award."
OceanGold Corp. restarted mining at the Haile deposit 2016. The company expects to produce an average of 126,700 ounces of gold per year for 13.25 years.[41]
The Brewer mine operated from 1828 to 1995, and is now a federal Superfund site.[42]
Kennecott Minerals operated the Ridgeway open-pit gold mine from 1988 to 1999, and the land is now being reclaimed by Kennecott.
The Barite Hill mine operated from 1990 to 1994.
South Dakota[edit]
Main article: Black Hills Gold Rush
The only operating gold mine in South Dakota is the Wharf mine, at Lead, an open pit heap leach operation operated by Coeur Mining that produced 109,000 ounces of gold in 2016.[43]
See also: Homestake Mine (South Dakota)
Tennessee[edit]
Placer gold was discovered on Coker Creek in Monroe County, Tennessee in 1827. The district produced about 9,000 troy ounces (280 kg).[44]
About 15,000 troy ounces (470 kg) of gold was recovered from the massive sulfide copper ores at Ducktown, Tennessee.
Texas[edit]
Some prospects have been excavated for gold on the Llano Uplift of central Texas. Gold prospects include the Heath mine and the Babyhead district, both in Llano County, and the Central Texas mine in Gillespie County. Gold production, if any, is not known.[45] Historically, the Lost Nigger Gold Mine may be in Texas.
Utah[edit]
Most gold produced in Utah today is a byproduct of the huge Bingham Canyon copper mine, southwest of Salt Lake City. In 2013, the Bingham Canyon mine produced 192,300 troy ounces (5,980 kg) of gold.[46] Over its life, Bingham Canyon has produced more than 23 million ounces (715 tonnes) of gold, making it one of the largest gold producers in the US.
The Barneys Canyon mine in Salt Lake County, the last primary gold mine to operate in Utah, stopped mining in 2001, but is still recovering gold from its heap leaching pads. Utah gold production was 460,000 troy ounces (14,000 kg) in 2006.[47]
Virginia[edit]
Main article: Gold mining in Virginia
Washington[edit]
Gold was first discovered in Washington in 1853, as placer deposits in the Yakima Valley. Production from the state never exceeded 50,000 troy ounces per year until the mid-1930s, when large hard rock deposits were developed near the Chelan Lake and Wenatchee deposits in Chelan County, and the Republic deposit in Ferry County. Production through 1965 is estimated to be 2.3 million ounces.[48]
Wyoming[edit]
Gold was discovered at the South Pass-Atlantic City-Sweetwater district in present Fremont County in 1842. The placers were worked intermittently until 1867, when the first important gold vein was discovered, and prospectors and miners rushed to the area.. The towns of South Pass City, Atlantic City, and Miner's Delight catered to the miners. The district was nearly deserted by 1875, and was worked only intermittently afterward. Total gold production was about 300,000 troy ounces (9,300 kg). In 1962, the district became the site of a major iron mine.[49]
Moraine gold[edit]
Several states (e.g., Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania) have placer gold deposits, despite having no hard rock gold deposits. This placer gold is found north of, or near the terminus of, Pleistocene, or earlier, moraines left by Ice Age glaciers that pushed gold-rich dirt down from Canada, where hard rock gold deposits do exist, and which were scoured by glaciers. Small commercial operations have existed at various times, to mine this gold, with various degrees of limited success. The southernmost limit of these moraines, Pleistocene and older, is approximately at the Ohio River for Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio.[50][51][52] The moraines in Pennsylvania are in the northwestern and northeastern portions of the Commonwealth.[53]
Gold mining royalties[edit]
Gold mining royalties and taxes in the US are levied at the state level, in the same manner as in other major international gold producers such as Canada and Australia. The rate of royalty varies from state to state, as well whether the royalty is gross (a proportion of the total sale proceeds), modified gross (Net smelter return) or net (the sale proceeds minus an allowance for production costs). US gold producers are additionally subject to the federal corporate income tax of 35% of net profits.[54][55]
Royalty rates for each of the US gold mining states (in order of production) are:
Nevada - 5% net[56][57]
Alaska - 7% net[58]
Utah - 2.6% gross[59]
Colorado - 2.25% gross[60]
California- $5 per ounce produced[54]
Washington - 0.48% gross[54]
South Dakota - 4% net[61]
Montana - 1.6% net[54]
Idaho - 1% gross[54]
In 2015 Nevada and Alaska together accounted for 90.3% of US gold production.[31][8]
See also[edit]
Gold rush
References[edit]
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External links[edit]
California
California Department of Mines and Geology: Map of Historic Gold Mines
California Department of Mines and Geology: Map of California Active Gold Mines 2000-2001
California Department of Mines and Geology: The Discovery of Gold in California
Maryland
Maryland Geological Survey: Gold in Maryland
Texas
Handbook of Texas Online: Gold mining
Utah
Utah History to Go: Minor gold rushes, major gold production
National
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