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Goldvein produced $1,200,000 worth of nuggets between 1825 and the Civil War. During the War, Union troops destroyed some of the mines as part of efforts to cripple the Southern economy. Many of the mines affected by this destruction were marginal producers by that time and never re-opened. Others, however, continued until the middle of the 20th Century.
Bigger and newer ‘strikes’ elsewhere were another distraction. By the mid 1800s, the Virginia fields became less attractive to ‘49er’s and their Clementines as the subsequent rushes to gold discoveries in Colorado, California and the Yukon overshadowed and out produced the local mines.
In both Virginia and the West, it was often the case that more money was made on the fringes of the gold fields than by extracting ore. Sales of supplies to miners and mine companies was one way to do it. After all, price for commodities is no
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