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The Cerro Gordo Mines are a collection of abandoned mines located in Cerro Gordo in the Inyo Mountains, Inyo County, near Lone Pine, California. Mining operations spanned 1866 to 1957, producing high grade silver , lead , and zinc ore; and, more rarely, gold ore and copper ore . [ 1 ]
Cerro Gordo in 1980 Cerro Gordo is a former settlement in Inyo County , California , United States , and was primarily a silver mining town based around the Cerro Gordo Mines . At its height, hundreds of dwellings dotted the landscape, while miners sought their fortunes.
In July 2018, Underwood purchased the former mining town of Cerro Gordo alongside the Cerro Gordo Mines for $1.4 million. [26] [27] The purchase included over 360 acres and 22 structures. [28] Underwood stated plans to develop the town into an artist destination for tourists and group events, while maintaining the historic nature of the ...
This list of mines in California is subsidiary to the list of ... Sutter Gold Mining Inc. Tourist tours shut down in September 2011 Cerro Gordo Mine 36. ...
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The trying three-week (one way) journey improved after the formation of the Cerro Gordo Freighting Company, run by ancestors of regional historian Remi Nadeau who has written of this period. The town of Keeler, below the Inyo Mountains on the former north shore, replaced Swansea as the shipping port for the mines after the 1872 Lone Pine ...
A gold mine could reopen in the Sierra Nevada. Environmentalists fear air pollution, empty wells and toxic waste. A California gold mine's toxic legacy: Inside the fight over reopening a treasure ...
Beveridge gold mining camp, which existed between the 1880s and the 1910s, and had a post office from 1881 to 1882, was within Beveridge Canyon at the eastern side of the Inyo Mountains. Now considered a ghost town , the nearest settlement is Lone Pine in Owens Valley , 11 miles (18 km) southwest on Route 395 .