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Endowment Mine

Endowment Mine

This fairly remote and old silver, lead, and zinc (with some traces of gold and copper) mine is a pretty neat site. The old camp dates from the 1870s and was reworked in the 1920s. The mine has four levels (not including the adit level) and a few thousand feet

North Star and Gold Coin Mines

North Star and Gold Coin Mines

Dan and I visited these mines in the autumn of 2008. I couldn’t find much history on either of these two small mines. They both look to have minor production and are seldom visited. We found an oven or furnace at the end of our trip. Its origins and

Mohawk Mine

Mohawk Mine

This medium-sized, multi-level mine had a fairly prolonged period of activity dating back to the 1920s. It is a more modern mine than we usually go check out, but we heard that a mining company was examining it to be mined as an open pit. We wanted to get out

Little Whiskey Flat Petroglyphs

Little Whiskey Flat Petroglyphs

This is a small native hunting and habitation site I went to check out. It is along a prehistoric deer migration route. Native Americans set up a long rock wall to use as a blind and channel deer into a canyon where they could ambush them from above. The site

Petroglyph Butte

Petroglyph Butte

We have visited this site a couple of times over the years. The first time was in 2003 with Cat and Brad. We stopped by again in 2011, and the site looked mostly unchanged. This place is way out in the middle of nowhere. The petroglyphs here are carved into

Merger Mine

Merger Mine

The Bellehelen Merger Mine was a remote gold and silver mine that mainly worked from 1906 to the 1930s and was the principal mine of the district. There was an active camp with a fifty-ton cyanide mill here at one time. Not much is left these days. The mill is

Sanger Mine

Sanger Mine

Dan and I came across this abandoned but modern mine on an exploration trip in 2008. This is Central Nevada, and some mining companies are developing mines out here. It was a nice little find. We explored most of it but probably missed a level or so. GPS