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The following is a list of ghost towns in Idaho.A ghost town is an abandoned village, town or city, usually one which contains substantial visible remains.A town often becomes a ghost town because the economic activity that supported it has failed, or due to natural or human-caused disasters such as floods, government actions or uncontrolled lawlessness.
The crew (along with two horses) entered the mine opening near the bank of Placer Creek just as the fire engulfed the area. [2] [3] [5] The mine was actually a short prospecting tunnel that had been abandoned because no ore was found there. The mine opening was 6 feet (1.8 m) high and 5 feet (1.5 m) wide.
Bunker Hill Mining & Metallurgical: Shoshone: The Coeur d'Alene River basin contains millions of tons of mine tailings, waste rock and ore concentrates. Soil, sediments, groundwater and surface water are contaminated with heavy metals including cadmium, lead and zinc from former mining and smelting operations. [12] [13] 12/30/1982: 09/08/1983
Old mines pose myriad dangers, with 381 people killed and 152 injured at abandoned mine sites nationwide between 2000 and 2013, according to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Victims can fall into hidden shafts, get lost in underground tunnels or perish from poisonous gases present in many old coal mines.
The Silver City Historic District is a historically significant mining area in northwestern Owyhee County, Idaho, United States. [1] It includes the abandoned town of Silver City and numerous nearby towns, mines, and mining remains, covering approximately 16 square miles (41 km 2).
The push to clean up coal mine waste — not just in Belt Creek but at thousands of abandoned mine sites across the country — began in 1977 when Congress passed the Surface Mining Control and ...
Sawtooth City (also Sawtooth) is an abandoned mining camp in Blaine County, Idaho, United States.Located at (43.8965718, -114.8403490), it sits at an altitude of 7,342 feet (2,238 m), along Beaver Creek near its confluence with the Salmon River in the Sawtooth Valley of Sawtooth National Recreation
In its early years, Burke was home to the Hercules silver mine, [2] the owners of which were implicated in the Idaho mining wars of 1899. [3] Both the Hecla and Star mines also operated out of Burke, [2] and the town was a significant site during the 1892 Coeur d'Alene labor strike.