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Brooklyn Mine (Boulder Creek District)

Brooklyn Mine (Boulder Creek District)

I couldn’t find much history on this spot, only that it was worked on in 1907 for silver, lead, zinc, and some copper. Reportedly, it was an underground hydraulic operation to wash ore out of the vein. That must have been something to see. On the surface, you can

Stanley Mine

Stanley Mine

Not its real name, 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 inside. The mine was first worked in 1882, but major production

Blackwater Mine

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. The mine was first worked around 1900, but it wasn’t until the 1930s that it became

Green Scorpion Mine

Green Scorpion Mine

This is a small prospect I’ve wanted to check out for over a decade. I finally decided to track it down. I didn’t have an exact location, but I had a good idea of where it was. So I went out scouting the hills. I first became interested

Senator Mine

Senator Mine

High on top of a mountain in central Nevada is the Senator Mine. The history of this quicksilver mine is a little hard to follow as the property changed hands a few times and recorded owners and production are missing, but from what I can tell, the mine was first

Wooden Ore Car Mine

Wooden Ore Car Mine

In 2007, I read a book on Nevada mining history with a photo of a wooden ore car sitting out front of a mine. “Wow!” I thought to myself. “That would be an incredible sight to see.” Of course, I immediately set out to find it. I scoured my notes,

Lakeshore Mine

Lakeshore Mine