1849	Beginning of the California Gold Rush

1852	Placer Mining began in the Alleghany District with the discovery of the first gold by Hawaiian sailors.

1853	Earliest report of lode mining (Rainbow and Irelan mines)

1861	Peak of placer production in the Alleghany district.

1870	The Placer Act limits placer claims to 160 acres.

1878 - Dec. 4

Bald Mountain (281 acres) claim verified, located about 1859.

1882	A 1000 troy ounce slab of quartz and gold from the Rainbow mine on display in San Francisco.

1887 - Feb. 8

South Fork Placer Mine claim located.

1891	Ruby and Bald Mountain Extension mines only ones to maintain payroll.

1891	Three-way partnership formed to relocate vein (Tightner vein) from the Knickerbocker tunnel.

1896	William Jennings Bryan gave "Cross of Gold" speech advocating coinage minted from 16 parts silver to 1 part gold. (16-1)

1896	Tom Bradbury located the Sixteen to One vein in his backyard.

1900 - March 14

U.S. on gold standard.

1908	H.L. Johnson applies for patent on Contract, Contract Extension and consolidates Rainbow, Red Star & El Dorado.

1908	T. Bradbury options Sixteen to One to partnership of Lawson, Wilson and Van der Beugle, they hit rich ore and Wilson slips out of town with the gold.

1911	H.L. Johnson sells his interest in the Tightner to O'Brien, Foote & Assoc. ($550,000).

1911 - October 6

J.G. Jury, W.I. Smart and H.K. Montgomery incorporate as Original Sixteen to One Mine, Inc

1918	Fred Searls Jr. forms the Alleghany Mining Company and takes over Tightner Mines Company. He then begins to rework the Red Star.

1918	Tightner Mine has produced $3M and distributed $.5M in dividends under Foote & O'Brien.

1919	Sixteen to One's Twenty-one Mine litigation. Settlement of $93,000 in favor of Sixteen to One which bought the Twenty-one Mine for $60,000.

1922	Sixteen to One has discovered orebodies to the value of: $2M, $1M, and several at $.2M.

1923 - April 23

Dr. R.G. Raymond (Mariposa Mine Assoc.) quit-claims Ophir and Eclipse properties to the Sixteen to One.

1924	80 pound lot of ore from the Sixteen to One yields $5,000.

1924	The "Sixteen" has paid $1.283M in dividends.

1925	Sixteen to One acquires Tightner Mine from Alleghany Mining Co. (Fred Searles).

1928	A 160 pound chunk of ore form the Sixteen to One mine yields $28,000.

1929 - 1935

Sixteen to One mine is ranked 117 for amount of gold production in the world and 10th in the United States.

1930	Depression. Payroll averages 80 to 100 men.

1934 - February

Price of gold fixed at $35 per troy ounce.

1934	Bullion receipts of the Sixteen to One total $.578M for the year. Dividends that year were $.287M (almost 50% of bullion receipts).

1940	Up to this year, $4.4M in dividends paid out.

1940	Peak of U.S. gold production. 150 tons for 1940.

1941 - August 25

F.F. Cassidy buys the South Fork properties on behalf of the Sixteen to One.

1942 - October 8

War Production Board Order L-208 reduces mining activities in many mines to nil.

1942	Up to this date Sixteen to One has mined .608M tons of ore with a yield of .749M ounces of gold. Handsorting totalled 164 tons with 73.25% of the yield.

1943 - April 15

Sixteen to One acquires Rainbow property.

1954	Fire in hoist room of the Tightner shaft.

1954 - Oct. 18

Rainbow Extension and Fraction acquired.

1965 - Dec. 9

Sixteen to One mine phases out of mining, having produced over 1M ounces of gold.

1968 - March 17

London Pool dissolved; U.S. off the gold standard.

1975 - Jan. 1

U.S. Citizens permitted to own gold

1976	Lease to the Sixteen to One Mining Company, an unrelated Nevada corporation

1976	Tightner Mines Company merger. Proxy fight for the control of the company commences.

June 1980

The same stockholders, or their descendants, some 300 of them still own Original Sixteen to One Mine, Inc., but the officers have been wracked with dissention and troubles persisting until June 1980.

1980 - Jan. 21

Price of gold reaches a high of $850.00 per ounce

1983 - July 14

Lucky Chance Mining Corporation acquires Sixteen to One Mining Co. and changes name to LCM Corporation.

1984 - April 27

High-grade ore discovered by LCM Corporation.

1984 - November

Bald Mountain Partnership options Forest properties from Sixteen to One.

1985 - Jan. 27

Company modifies lease. Red Star claim reconveyed to Sixteen to One.

1985 - March

Company acquires old school in Alleghany.

1985 - April 1

Transwestern Mining takes over as operator of central lease from Kanaka Creek Joint Venture. (KCJV).

1985 - May 13

Completion of first audit in thirty years.

1985 - Feb. 24

Lowest price of gold in this decade. $284 per ounce.

1986 - Jan. 26

Mine office ( the Alleghany School ) destroyed by arsonist.

1987 - June 19

Royal Gold, Inc. replaces Transwestern Mining as operator of KCJV.

1987 - July

Acquisition of lease of Osceola Mine.

1987 - Sept. 11

Successful completion of Private Placement Financing. $430,634.

1988 - April

KCJV gold production approaches minimum royalty level.

1989 - May 19

Public listing on the Pacific Stock Exchange.

1989 - June

Completion of initial phase of Red Star rehabilitation.

1991 - June 3

Agreement with Royal Gold terminated. Company reconsolidates its assets.

1992 - Jan. 26

Hand held metal detectors work magic. 1000 ounces of gold discovered.

1993 - August

The Whopper discovered. An eighteen pound specimen, mined from the 2200 level, contains 141 ounces of gold.

1993 - December 17

Greatest recorded single day production. 2500 ounces were mined from the 1330 stope. (value:$1M).

1994 - January

Company purchased Brown Bear Mine in the Trinity Alps. 500,000 ounces reported gold, one million dollar drilling data at town of Deadwood

1994 - October

First breaking of rock on the 2483 winze. This represents the first deepening of the mine in forty years.

1995 - March

Sixteen to One equips its own mine rescue team.

1995 - July

5000 ounces mined in ten days. (value:$2M).

1995 - August

Original Sixteen to One Mine announces first dividend in 40 years.

1996 - January

Company has 731 shareholders of recored and approximately 100+ in street name.

1996 - October 28

Sixteen to One Mine honored for 100,888 work hours from January 1988 to October 1994 without fatal accident or permanent total disability.

1996 - December 12

Ian Haley promoted to Mine Superintendent.

1997 - April 1

No joke. 300 ounces re-enforces the beginning of new pay chute.

1997 - May

1000 ounces mined in less than a week

1997 - November 14

Miners set record and hoist 100 skips of ore.

1997 - December

Rainbow Mine is reopened after being inactive for over 70 years

1997 - Dec. 31

Rainbow mine yeilds 100 ounces and earns a six month look.

1998 - April

Mine survives the worst of El Nino, operating every day with only minor interruption.

1999 - January 21

California Sesquicentennial Commission honors Company as Official Golden Partner commemorating the gold rush and statehood of California 150 years ago.

1999 - February 12

Black Friday. Crew disbanded.

1999 - June

Company acquires Plumbago Mine.

1999 - October 1

Downsized crew is back on payroll.

2000 - March 31

620 ounce production for a profitable first quarter.

2000 - September 30

Company ends the third quarter with a gold production of 1,454 troy ounces.

2000 - November 6

Tragic accident takes the life of Lead Miner Mark Fussell.

2000 - December 31

Company has its first profitable year since 1995.

2001 - December 31

1,259 Holders of Common Stock

2002 - Jan. 10

Approximately 1000 ounces produced since December 14, 2001

2002 - July 9

Private Lawyers initiate criminal charges against company re: fatal accident.

2003 - Feb. 13	Sierra County Superior Court Judge throws out criminal charges. Website forum celebrates, victorious and company presents claim.
2004 - Feb. 14	Company files a complaint for damages against private lawyers and CA District Attorney's Assn.
2004 - July 15	Miners hit 1,400 ounce pocket on the 1,100 foot level.
2004 - December 31	Company shows a $400,000 profit for the year.
2005 - June 22	Company acquires the Gold Crown Mine adjacent to the Sixteen to One Mine.
2005 - September 12	George Gilmour, friend and Corporate Attorney, killed in a car crash near Alleghany.
2006 - March 30	U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacates all charges related to fatal accident.
2008 - January 3	Maintenance program begins. 800 level near Tightner Shaft first location.
2008 - March	Company gold collection photographed for sales catalog.
2009 - February 20	Spot gold prices tops $1000 an ounce.