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Custer County: 1877 1897 Historic A former mining town turned state park [2] Bonanza: Bonanza City Custer County: 1877 Abandoned [2] Burgdorf: Idaho County: 1860s Before 1945 Semi-abandoned Burke: Shoshone County: 1887 1991 Semi-abandoned A mining town that closed after several natural disasters. Caribou City: 1897 1930 [citation needed ...
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.
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
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 South Boise Historic Mining District, in Elmore County, Idaho and including Rocky Bar, Idaho, is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. It included eight contributing buildings and a contributing site on 8,640 acres (35.0 km 2 ), or about a ten square mile area.
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The Australian owner of a cobalt mine in Central Idaho plans more extensive study of cobalt at a remote site in the Salmon River Mountains, and the potential for a cobalt refinery, after securing ...
The Birch Creek Charcoal Kilns are a group of beehive-shaped clay charcoal kilns near Leadore, Idaho, built in 1886. They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The kilns were built in 1886 to produce charcoal to fuel the smelter at Nicholia, which smelted lead and silver ore from the Viola Mine about 10 miles east of ...