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Sunnyside Mill

Sunnyside Mill

What remains of the Sunnyside Mill sits at the end of a short walk through the forest, a crumbled foundation and scattered machinery in a landscape that has largely erased a century of mining activity. The mine that fed this mill once had over 9,000 feet of underground workings

Sulphur Dog Mine

Sulphur Dog Mine

Hermes Mine and Cinnabar Camp

Hermes Mine and Cinnabar Camp

In 1942, while other mining camps slowly faded into obscurity, Cinnabar Camp was bustling with new construction: a three-story bunkhouse, a dozen cabins, and a mill rising from deep in the central Idaho mountains. This wasn't gold fever or silver dreams driving the activity. The United States needed

Livingston Mill

Livingston Mill

Two mills and a camp with 22 buildings. The Livingston is one of the most intact mining operations I've seen in Idaho, and it has a caretaker who lives on-site. On the way in, we spotted the word "Trump" painted on one of the buildings. When

Hunting Grounds Mill

Hunting Grounds Mill

Clayton Mine

Clayton Mine

The Clayton Mine has something you rarely find at abandoned mines: a mill with nearly everything still inside. The coal-powered boiler still has coal in the bin. The massive diesel generator, the compressor, the ball mill, the flotation tanks, and vacuum filters are all still in place, as if the

Stanley Mine

Stanley Mine

I've been asked not to disclose this mine's name or location. This silver mine, high in the mountains of Central Idaho, was a really fun one to explore. It’s a very wet mine, but we found a few ore cars and a flooded shaft station