RHH's photos with the keyword: mine

On our hike from Cottonwood Springs in Joshua Tree National Park we followed a side trail to Mastodon Peak and visited an old mine site there.

When in Alaska in 2015 we stayed a night in Palmer, north of Anchorage, and spent a day exploring Hatcher Pass and the now-closed Indpendence Gold Mine. The whole area of the pass is beautiful and the mine is fascinating.

This is the old gold-mining town of Independence, Alaska, in Hatcher Pass, north of Anchorage. The mine was one of the most successful in Alaska but closed in 1952.

This si some of the abandoned equipment from the Eureka Mine on the west side of Death Valley. The mine was worked from 1905 to 1945 and was discovered by Pete Aguereberry and Shorty Harris.

Taken from the hill in which the Eureka Mine is found this photo looks down on the area around the mine entrance. The mine is in the Panamint Mountains on the west side of Death Valley National Park.

This was taken at the Eureka Mine(now abandoned) in the Panamint Mountains on the west side of Death Valley where gold was discovered in 1905.

The Eureka Mine was a gold mine in the Panamint Mountains on the west side of Death Valley that operated from 1905 to 1945. This was the crusher mill near the mine and on the other side of the hill (see inset) was the miner's camp, Harrisburg, named for one of the discoverers of gold on the site.

Photographed on the way to the ghost town of Skidoo (nothing left but sagebrush) we photographed this old mining structure though unsure whether it was a cabin or something connected with the working of a nearby mine. This is all on the west side of the Death Valley National Park and in the mountains.

This was taken near Warm Springs Camp in Death Valley and appears to be an area where there were buildings for the storage of equipment. Nothing is left now but some concrete slabs.

This old mine, probably a talc mine, is along the Warm Springs Canyon Road in Death Valley. The area is full of old mines many of them gold mines.

This the now abandoned White Point talc mine at Warm Springs in Death Valley. It was last owned by the Pfizer Corporation and was worked into the 1990's when the National Park obtained the property. The photo is taken through the gate that now prevents access to the mine.

This is a view of the area around Warm Springs in Death Valley. The old mining camp can be seen at the far left and the mining equipment near the camp at the middle of the photo while the photo itself was taken from the nearby talc mine.

Warm Springs Camp is fifteen miles off the main road in the southwestern part of Death Valley. Now derelict it was a luxury mining camp established to house the miners at nearby talc and gold mines. As the insets show, it even had a swimming pool fed by the warm springs above the camp. We spent a good part of the fifth day and the night there sleeping in our van which is just visible behind the bushes in front of the camp buildings. We did not sleep in the buildings which were filthy, nor did we use the swimming pool which had very little water in it and that filthy, but we did use the warm springs to bathe and wash some clothes. More information on the camp is available here, a very interesting story: deathvalleyjim.com/warm-springs-camp-death-valley-national-park .

Warm Springs Camp is fifteen miles off the main road in the southwestern part of Death Valley. Now derelict it was a luxury mining camp established to house the miners at nearby talc and gold mines. As the insets show, it even had a swimming pool fed by the warm springs above the camp. We spent a good part of the fifth day and the night there sleeping in our van which is just visible behind the bushes in front of the camp buildings. We did not sleep in the buildings which were filthy, nor did we use the swimming pool which had very little water in it and that filthy, but we did use the warm springs to bathe and wash some clothes. More information on the camp is available here, a very interesting story: deathvalleyjim.com/warm-springs-camp-death-valley-national-park .

Warm Springs Camp is fifteen miles off the main road in the southwestern part of Death Valley. Now derelict it was a luxury mining camp established to house the miners at nearby talc and gold mines. As the insets show, it even had a swimming pool fed by the warm springs above the camp. We spent a good part of the fifth day and the night there sleeping in our van which is just visible behind the bushes in front of the camp buildings. We did not sleep in the buildings which were filthy, nor did we use the swimming pool which had very little water in it and that filthy, but we did use the warm springs to bathe and wash some clothes. More information on the camp is available here, a very interesting story: deathvalleyjim.com/warm-springs-camp-death-valley-national-park .

Warm Springs Camp is fifteen miles off the main road in the southwestern part of Death Valley. Now derelict it was a luxury mining camp established to house the miners at nearby talc and gold mines. As the insets show, it even had a swimming pool fed by the warm springs above the camp. We spent a good part of the fifth day and the night there sleeping in our van which is just visible behind the bushes in front of the camp buildings. We did not sleep in the buildings which were filthy, nor did we use the swimming pool which had very little water in it and that filthy, but we did use the warm springs to bathe and wash some clothes. More information on the camp is available here, a very interesting story: deathvalleyjim.com/warm-springs-camp-death-valley-national-park .

Warm Springs Camp is fifteen miles off the main road in the southwestern part of Death Valley. Now derelict it was a luxury mining camp established to house the miners at nearby talc and gold mines. As the insets show, it even had a swimming pool fed by the warm springs above the camp. We spent a good part of the fifth day and the night there sleeping in our van which is just visible behind the bushes in front of the camp buildings. We did not sleep in the buildings which were filthy, nor did we use the swimming pool which had very little water in it and that filthy, but we did use the warm springs to bathe and wash some clothes. More information on the camp is available here, a very interesting story: deathvalleyjim.com/warm-springs-camp-death-valley-national-park .

My apologies for being so late with comments today, but we were underground. My wife and I and three friends explored the Damon and Pythias Mine in the Skykomish area of the North Cascades. We had been told about this mine by an Ipernity friend who knew the area and had been in the mine and we went there first and then went on and bushwacked our way to Crater Lake, a small alpine lake in the same area. We had beautiful weather and an amazing day. The Damon and Pythias Mine was a gold mine that was opened in the late nineteenth century and operated sporadically until the late nineteenth century. Silver, lead and arsenic were taken from the mine which is a series of horizontal shafts with much of the old track for the ore cars and other equipment still in the mine. I'm not sure what the tank was used for but an old ore chute and shaft are just to the right and two other shafts to the left and straight ahead.