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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 ...
During the 1870s, Lone Pine was an important supply town for several nearby mining communities, including Kearsarge, Cerro Gordo, Keeler, Swansea, and Darwin. [11] The Cerro Gordo mine high in the Inyo Mountains was one of the most productive silver mines in California. [11]
Cerro Gordo Mine 36.537630883074755, -117.7919741219899 Keeler Brent Underwood, Jon Bier 1866–1920 Silver. Waterloo mine; References This page ...
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 ...
Nearly four decades later, in 1902, the Conn and Trudo Borax Company established a borax mine in the Saline Valley. [1] The next year, White Smith, a Tennessee-born attorney working for Conn and Trudo as a teamster, [2] [5] organized the Saline Valley Salt Company (SVSC). The SVSC mined the valley's salt on a small scale from 1903 until the ...
Remi A. Nadeau's great, great grandfather Remi Nadeau, was an early French-Canadian emigrant to Los Angeles. In 1861, "old" Remi Nadeau established the first mule-team freight transportation service crossing the Mojave Desert to serve mining areas such as Cerro Gordo and Calico. [4]