{"id":4192,"date":"2024-01-05T12:13:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T12:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/?p=4192"},"modified":"2024-01-05T21:06:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T21:06:24","slug":"goldstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/goldstone\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldstone Index"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"\/goldstone-ghost-town\/\">\/goldstone-ghost-town\/<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/600-goldstone-202f.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/600-goldstone-202f.jpg 600w, https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/600-goldstone-202f-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<strong>Gold Stone<\/strong>&nbsp;is the name of a new camp, thirty-five miles north of Barstow, where some phenomenal ore has been found. Quite a stampede followed the discovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mojavedesert.net\/desert-fever\/northwest-sbc.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MINING IN NORTHWEST SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The area is the site of the only commercial opal mine in the California Desert. Waterman. Five years before the famous silver discoveries at Calico, George G.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/?p=4116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Barstow Index \u2013 Notes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 days ago&nbsp;<strong>&#8230;<\/strong>&nbsp;Post Views: 12.&nbsp;<strong>Goldstone<\/strong>, Barstow California, Mojave Desert. digital-desert.com \u203a&nbsp;<strong>goldstone<\/strong>-ghost-town.&nbsp;<strong>Goldstone<\/strong>&nbsp;Ghost Town. More of a site&nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/harper-dry-lake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Harper Dry Lake &#8211; Hinkley California, Barstow region<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Goldstone<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; Mojave Desert. Several people were involved in mining during this same time, including John Harper and Goodrich. 289. One of the most active&nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digital-desert.com\/ghost-towns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mojave Desert Ghost Towns<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&nbsp;<strong>Goldstone<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8212;&nbsp;<strong>Goldstone<\/strong>* &#8212; Gold Valley* &#8212; Goler Gulch &#8212; Goodsprings, Nevada &#8212; Greenwater &#8212; Greenwater* \u00b7 Harrisburg &#8212; Hart \u00b7 Ibex &#8212; Ivanpah \u00b7 Johannesburg<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mojavedesert.net\/mining-history\/chronology.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Timeline \/ Chronology of Mojave Desert Mining History<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persistent rumors have it that gold &#8230; 1859: Bodie, California &#8230; by prospector Wakeman S. Bodey, who the town was named after. Bodey died in November making&nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Notes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>States: Primarily in California and Nevada, with smaller portions in Arizona and Utah. Extent: The Mojave Desert is part of the larger North American Desert and&nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digital-desert.com\/ecosections\/322ah.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mojave Valley &#8211; Granite Mountains: Mojave Desert Ecological &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>digital-desert.com&nbsp;\u203a ecosections<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the dry lake beds are Bicycle, Coyote, East Cronese, West Cronese,&nbsp;<strong>Goldstone<\/strong>, Langford Wells, Leach, Manix, Nelson, Pilot Knob Valley, Red Pass, and&nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mojavedesert.net\/books\/mojave-river-valley\/06.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Romantic Heritage of the Mojave River Valley<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now, with the operations of the&nbsp;<strong>Goldstone<\/strong>&nbsp;tracking station ushering the &#8220;space age&#8221; into the desert, the future holds promise far beyond the wildest dreams&nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\/goldstone-ghost-town\/ \u201cGold Stone&nbsp;is the name of a new camp, thirty-five miles north of Barstow, where some phenomenal ore has been found. Quite a stampede followed the discovery. MINING IN NORTHWEST SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY The area is the site of the only commercial opal mine in the California Desert. Waterman. Five years before the famous silver &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/goldstone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Goldstone Index&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-geology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4197,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192\/revisions\/4197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}