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Herman Mine Stamp Mill

Herman Mine Stamp Mill

In 2004, Alysia and I met up with Lewis, Cat, and Dan to hunt for some old mine ruins nestled deep in the Tahoe National Forest of the western Sierra Nevada. Lewis showed us this great stamp mill hidden deep in the forest. The mine was fairly large at one

La Trinidad Stamp Mill

La Trinidad Stamp Mill

Alysia and I met up with Lewis, Cat, and Dan to try to find some old mills in the Sierras. Lewis led this trip to some great stamp mill ruins. This mill was a great find. Besides the five-stamp mill, it has a jaw crusher and ore panner. The

Golden Gate Stamp Mill

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

Empire Mine State Historic Park

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

Emerson Mine (Lincoln, Tempiute)

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,

Noonday Mine

Noonday Mine

We have visited this mine many times over the years. It is one of the earlier mines in the War Eagle Mine group. It was successful enough that the owners built a tramway down the hillside and developed their own railroad to connect to the mainline Tidewater and Tonopah railroad.

Santa Rosa Mine

Santa Rosa Mine

These dusty old photos are from a combination of trips to the old Santa Rosa Mine in the Inyo Mountains. Not much is left of this place, but it was nice to see the ore cars. And one of them was still sitting on the rails. A rich lead-silver