
Men of mining experience sought the source vein or veins from which the alluvial deposits originated. The first such vein, which was of gold quartz, was discovered on Colonel John C. Fremont’s Mariposa grant (John Charles Fremont, 1813-1890) in August 1849. It was probably not until 1850 or 1851, that the term Mother Lode was first applied
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