Desert Mines
Including gold mines, silver mines, various other minerals, and millsJoshua 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 SpringsMojave National Preserve
Death Valley Mine
Originally called Dawson Camp, the Death Valley Gold Milling and Mining Company first ...Gold Hammer Mine
The Gold Hammer, in the southern most part of the Mojave Preserve, appears to ...Bonanza King Mine
The Bonanza King Mine in the Mojave Preserve is located just to the north of ...Bonanza King Mill
Evening Star Mine
The Evening Star mine was in production between 1939 and 1944 and was ...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
Burro Schmidt Tunnel
William "Burro" Schmidt spent 38 years digging through Copper Mountain in ...Atolia Tungsten Mine
In 1912 Germans came to the area looking for scheelite ore, ...Holly Cleanser Mine
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 ...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.
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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