Merger Mine

The Bellehelen Merger mine was a remote gold and silver mine was mainly worked from 1906 to 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 long gone and the hills are quiet again.

Merger Mine

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Our first sign we are coming to a mine is the tailings washed down the creek bed.

I parked on the large mine dump.

Alysia at the portal door.

It is a long walk in. This is looking back at the portal.

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Look out.

Watch your step.

I love to find strange carbide writing underground left by miners. This is one of my favorites. It says "If you are lost sit down and get set for a long wait."