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Song and Star Mines
Not their real names. Morgan, Ric, and I were out exploring the Stanislaus National Forest in 2004, hunting for some interesting mines. These two old steam hoists in separate mines were great and rarely seen out in the wild.
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Bristol Silver Mine
Jake’s Cabin
We’ve been going to Jake’s Cabin for over twenty years. It is a great place to camp out in the middle of nowhere. The cabin is part of an old prospecting camp. A tin can dump is scattered nearby, and a small shaft is hidden down the wash.
Mule Tail Mine
The Mule Tail was one of Shorty Harris’ mines, and the rush to the Goldbelt District started in the early 1900s. It is a small mine, and only a single ore car and lonely adit remain out in this desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.
Terese Petroglyphs
Deep in the El Paso Mountains, at the site of a fossil spring, is an extensive Coso Native American village site. We found rock circles, grinding slicks, mortars, manos with metates, and petroglyphs spread out across a wide area.
Panamint Treasure Mine
Finding this great little gem of a mine is a bit of a hike. The mine was worked as early as the 1890s and again in the 1930s. The miners walked away from the mine in 1941 when World War II broke out, and a presidential order closed many “non-essential”