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
Blackwater Mine
In the late summer of 2018, we made a visit to a remote mine in Idaho. The ruined inclined tramway was my main interest, but the mine is more extensive than it looks. I've been asked not to disclose this mine's name or location.
Yankee Fork Gold Dredge
The Yankee Fork Gold Dredge sits like a beached leviathan in a valley it helped destroy and remake. When gold fever cooled along the Yankee Fork of the Salmon River and the dredge finally ground to a halt in 1952, it left behind 6.5 miles of stone intestines: gravel
Ramshorn and Skylark Mines
The Ramshorn and Skylark mines cling to a steep mountainside at over 9,000 feet, connected by the remains of an aerial tramway that once carried ore down to the canyon floor. In the 1880s, silver here ran rich enough that miners packed it out by mule despite $47-per-