Rockdale Gold Mining Company stock certificate circa 1864 (Colorado)

Impressive double vignette of a surface mining and panning at the center and underground mining scene on the full left border. Unissued and not cancelled. Dated 186_. Circa 1864 from corporate records.  Measures approximately 10.5 x 6.25 inches.  

The Rockdale Gold Mining Company was incorporated around 1864 in New York and had a mine shaft in Central City, Gilpin County, Colorado. 

The Colorado Mineral Belt was once a thriving hive of activity. Running 300 miles north and south and 50 miles wide, the CMB contains gold, copper, silver, pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, and galena.

Mines and towns sprang up all through the CMB during the second half of the nineteenth century. Four of the biggest mines were the Banker Mine, the Swiss Boy, the Fortune, and the Tasmania. A few of the towns were Winfield, Rockdale/Silverdale, Vicksburg, and Beaver City, all four of which lay in Clear Creek Canon.

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