Even these worthwhile mining claims usually lost money in the long run, through failure of their owners/operators to shut down soon enough when the operations stopped paying their costs.
Persson secured the mining claims at and also bought land to build a railway and land to build a plant at port at Gullsmedvik.
In two centuries, subsequent mining and excavation of the area claimed to have contained the mine have not yielded a single vein of silver ore.
Later in 1864, Woolsey and several other men were working their mining claims in the Bradshaw Mountains.
After battling the storms for generations, the Cardassians had finally abandoned their mining claims here when they also abandoned their claim to the Bajor sector.
Bozeman came to Deer Lodge in western Montana in 1862 after his mining claims in Colorado failed.
Beryllium International will bring 379 mining claims to the joint venture in exchange for a 45 percent interest and an undisclosed cash sum.
That summer, an Aspen man trying to sell some mining claims to Ryan showed him pictures of the area.
He soon acquired several mining claims to settle unpaid debts and proceeded to have two modern smelters built.
McGee was also anxious to work some mining claims he had staked.