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Aragonite Mine

Aragonite Mine

Dan and I came across this active claim a little ways north of Tonopah in the outback of Nevada back in 2008. It is an interesting place in some lonely country. We didn’t know it was active until we explored the mine camp. Of course, we left everything alone.

Culverwell Mine

Culverwell Mine

Back in 2017, I had a fun time poking around this old cabin and mine out in Nevada’s Great Basin. The Culverwell was also called “History Repeats.” It shipped some gold and silver ore in 1933. The cabin appears to have been lived in as recently as the 1980s

Southern Nevada Mine

Southern Nevada Mine

The Southern Nevada Mine was an early mine in the Searchlight District and started out with the Spokane Shaft in the 1900s. In the first few years, the miners encountered water at 200 ft depth and abandoned the Spokane Shaft. They started working on the Blossom Shaft a half mile

Oakland Mine

Oakland Mine

The Oakland Group of mines never produced much. The mines were worked for gold from 1922 to 1934. A vertical shaft is reported to have gone down to at least 75 feet with drifts, and a separate incline shaft dropped to 85 feet. Water was encountered at these depths, and

"American Family" Mine

"American Family" Mine

This is a small but interesting modern mine camp with some equipment still left on-site. The mine was probably last worked in the 1980s, but most of the work was done during the Depression era. The compressors and engines are neat to see still in place. The hoist indicators

Sprucemont Ghost Town

Sprucemont Ghost Town

Sprucemont (really called Spruce Mountain) was actually a few mining camps spread across Spruce Mountain. First mined for lead-silver ore in 1869, it was a long-lived and successful mining area. The mines here produced ore all the way into WWII, almost a hundred years worth. The mines are

Crescent Peak Arrastra

Crescent Peak Arrastra

I visited a fairly modern arrastra in Southern Nevada in 2019. It is mostly intact, with the drag stones still in place. That is a rare find! The district was worked prehistorically for turquoise, but there are some small gold deposits here. A shallow shaft and other prospects are behind