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Randsburg, CA.![]() Rand Camp began as a tent city, erected by eager miners rushed to the Mojave desert following a major gold discovery in April 1895. ![]() A year later, the town of 1,500 had been renamed "Randsburg." ![]() Saloons sprouted, a U.S. Post Office was established, and the communities first newspaper, "The Randsburg Miner," appeared. ![]() By 1900, Randsburg's 3,500 inhabitants had a 30-stamp ore crusher, bank, churches and theaters. ![]() Railroad tracks soon connected the nearby town of Johannesburg to Kramer's Junction, some 25 miles to the south. ![]() At the turn-of-the-century, when gold was worth only $12-$16 an ounce, Randsburg's famous Yellow Aster Mine recovered $3 million in gold. ![]() In 1911, to take was $6 million. Most of the visible, or free gold, in the Rand Mining District already had been found before World War II, when gold mines nationwide were classified as "non-essential" industries, and closed. ![]() Technological developments now overshadow earlier methods of extracting free gold and make recovery of microscopic gold from low-grade ores economically feasible. ![]() During boom and bust, fires and war, smallpox and influenza epidemics, Randsburg tenaciously has clung to life. ![]() It still does. source - BLM |
![]() Heritage of the Upper Mojave"It is a land steeped in the romance and lore of a colorful past which witnessed a cavalcade of pathfinders, explorers, gold seekers, stagecoaches, and freighting wagons -- culminating with the entrance of railroads, ..."C.W. Tucker PhotosPhotographs made by C. W. Tucker, Randsburg photographer circa 1896 - 1898Historic Randsburg PhotosBurton Frasher photos - 1934History of Randsburg Mining DistrictWandering prospectors from the El Paso District discovered that the Summit Range, located northeast of the El Paso Mountains, also contained ...Atolia-Randsburg Tungsten BoomRandsburg by the beginning of the twentieth century has settled into a calm period of average, modest mining production. No new gold discoveries ...Randsburg WeatherCurrent Randsburg weather conditions and forecast |
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