KENNEDY GOLD MINE
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- Category: Mines/Ghost Towns
The Kennedy Mine in California’s Gold Country, is famous for being one of the deepest gold mines in the world (at 5912 feet) and demonstrates how gold changed an entire way of life in California.
Read MoreGOLD COUNTRY NUGGETS
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- Category: Mines/Ghost Towns
Traveling through the historic mining communities of the 1849 California gold rush along State Route 49, The Mother Lode Highway.
Read MoreKNIGHT FOUNDRY
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- Category: Abandoned, Mines/Ghost Towns
The historic Knight Foundry actively served the needs of the mining and lumber industries for over 120 years and is believed to be the only remaining water-powered foundry and machine shop in the United States.
Read MoreSHASTA CITY : SHASTA STATE HISTORIC PARK
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- Category: Abandoned, Mines/Ghost Towns
On the road between Redding and the California Coast, sits a once-thriving and now picturesque gold rush ghost town nestled in the hills along the Trinity River.
Read MoreTONOPAH HISTORIC MINING PARK
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The historic park covers more than 100 acres and is located on the site of the original mining claims that started the rush to Tonopah, making it “Queen of the Silver Camps.”
Read MoreBONNIE CLAIRE MINING RUINS
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- Category: Mines/Ghost Towns
Bonnie Clare was established in October 1906 as a milling center for several nearby mines.
Read MoreHARD LUCK MINE CASTLE
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- Category: Architecture, Mines/Ghost Towns
A private tour of Randy Johnston’s remote 4-story, 8,000-square-foot desert castle which has been under construction for the past 16 years.
Read MoreTHE RUINS OF CARRARA, NV
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- Category: Mines/Ghost Towns
Magic hour trespass in Carrara, NV where snow-white marble was once mined & where the Carrara Portland Cement Company Plant, built in 1936 to produce Portland cement, sits in beautiful ruin.
Read MoreDUBLIN GULCH/AMARGOSA
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- Category: Mines/Ghost Towns
The cave homes of Dublin Gulch in Shoshone, CA and the old borax mining company theater that was transformed into the Amargosa Opera House by artist/performer Marta Becket.
Read MoreBISBEE QUEEN MINE TOUR
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In almost 100 years of continuous production before the Bisbee mines closed in 1975, the local mines produced metals valued at $6.1 billion (at 1975 price) one of the largest production valuations of all the mining districts in the world.
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