Golden Gate Stamp Mill
The Golden Gate Mill is a neat site and relatively easy to reach. The ten-stamp mill got its ore from a 2,300 ft tramway that ran up to the mine. The gold mine was discovered in 1898 but wasn’t worked until around 1902 and probably peaked in 1913.
Bob and Ward’s Cabin
Also known as the Salt Basin Cabin, Bob and Ward’s cabin is a little wooden cabin that is all that remains of a 1920s mining camp in this isolated valley.
These days, the cabin is available as a first-come, first-served camping spot and receives many visitors each month. The
Empire Mine State Historic Park
Back in 2003, we took a trip up to the Sierra Nevada, and our group gained special permission from the California State Park service to explore a small underground portion of the massive Empire Mine inside the appropriately named Empire Mine State Historic Park in beautiful Grass Valley, California. Doug
Piute Stamp Mill
With a tip from our friends at Explore Historic California, we found a small three-stamp mill in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains.
Not much is left, but it is an interesting little find. I haven’t found any history on it, and I only got a few photos.
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Western Mine
Emerson Mine (Lincoln, Tempiute)
This is quite a place! This is a massive and strange mine with the sound of underground rivers far below, 4-foot boreholes going hundreds of feet through the mountain into the unknown, elevators, hoists, slushers, rusty ladders, pipes, stalactites, underground offices, workrooms, explosive lockers, and strange experimental testing equipment, all