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Gold: Old West - Mojave Desert

Desert Mines

Including gold mines, silver mines, various other minerals, and mills

Joshua Tree - Twentynine Palms

    The Silver Bell Mine

    Clearly visible in the eastern Hexie Mountains about .75 mile from the Pinto Basin Road west of the cholla cactus garden is the Silver Bell Mine. Two ore bins, a dirt-covered shelter, and an abandoned mine ...

    Desert Queen Mine

    After somewhat dubious beginings, the Desert Queen Mine became one of the ...

    Wall Street Mill

    Bill Keys operated the Wall Street mill, which was originally owned by ...

    Virginia Dale

    The Virginia Dale Mine dates to the early 1880s and little is known of its ...

    OK Mine

    The OK and Supply mines were top producers starting up about 1899 providing ...

    Lost Horse Mine

    An exception is the Lost Horse Mine, which produced 10,000 ounces of gold and ...

    Winona Mill

    Milling operation ruins near Cottonwood Springs

Mojave National Preserve

Owens Valley - Inyo Mountains

    Cerro Gordo

    The "fat hill" produced silver, lead and zinc for a century. At its peak over ...

    Keeler Smelter

    These ruins east of Keeler are of a "reverberating" smelter. Smelters were used ...

Death Valley National Park

    Lost Burro Gold Mine

    In 1907 Bert Shively's burro decided he'd had it and went to get himself ...

    Keane Wonder Mine

    Jack Keane found gold in this area of the Funeral Mountains in 1903. The ore was of ...

    Lippencott Lead Mine

    Originally in 1906 the mine was called the Lead King Mine. The name was changed and ...

    Skidoo Mill

    In January 1906, clouds rolled in over the top of the Panamints. The blinding fog ...

    Ashford Mill

    In 1910, Harold Ashford began work in the former claims of the ...

    Eureka Mine

    Pete Aguereberry nearly died trying to cross Death Valley in ...

    Wildrose Kilns

    Wood was harvested locally, packed within the kilns and burned into ...

    Harmony Borax Works

    In the Furnace Creek area, borates were deposited in the remains of ...

Barstow - Central Mojave Desert

    Arbuckle Mine

    A magnesite (magnesium) mine high up on the side of the cliff in Afton Canyon ...

    Silver Bell Mine

    The Silver Bell mine and mining camp southeast of Barstow. ...

    Old Dominion Mine

    Copper and some gold were dug out of the Old Dominion mine. The view of ...

    Rag Town

    Ain't much left of Ragtown. Probably wasn't much to be left ...

    Stedman

    < The Bagdad-Chase mine was a large operation.

Rand Mining District - El Paso Mountains

Searles Valley

    Ruth Mine

    In 1899, Doug Graham and Smiley Jones found some gold float in ...

Antelope Valley - West Mojave Desert

    Tropico Gold Mine

    Ezra Hamilton owned a pottery plant in Los Angeles California. He made bricks ...

San Bernardino National Forest

    Lucky Baldwin Mine

    San Francisco multimillionaire, Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin started a "gold rush" in 1874 ...

Angeles National Forest

    Bighorn Mine

    Along the rugged, nearly vertical face of Mount Baden-Powell, Tom Vincent discovered ...

also see:

Ghost Towns
Desert ghost towns are ghost towns simply for one reason ...

GOLD

Gold is where you find it. Of course it helps if you know about where to look. Slamming on the brakes, skidding to a stop on a busy highway, jumping out, and flinging sand all over like a mad wailing woman with a pan is probably the first technique that should be crossed off your list.

Those who found it and those who dug it out:

Prospectors and Miners

The gold fields of Northern California began drying up. Prospectors came back to the desert to ...

Mining History

Feature Mines of the Desert ...

Desert Fever

Overview of Mining in the Mojave Desert ...


Eagle Cliff Mine - Joshua Tree National Park


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