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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

Palmer Mine

Palmer Mine

This is quite a place! This is a massive and strange mine. The sound of underground rivers far below, 4-foot boreholes going hundreds of feet through the mountain into the unknown, elevators, hoists, slushers, rusty ladders, pipes, stalactites, underground offices, workrooms, explosive lockers, and strange experimental testing equipment, all spread

Silver Dyke Mine

Silver Dyke Mine

The mine was first worked for gold and silver by Chas Noble in 1915 and later developed into a multi-level mine and worked for tungsten until at least 1956. The few thousand feet of workings are developed along an impressive scheelite vein (the dyke) that stretches across the mountainside for