A Summer at the Blackbird Mine By Russell Steele In the rear view mirror I could see my new hard hat, just a shiny reflection in the damp dust on the narrow haul road. It was the first
A Mountain and Its Mines By Ray Brooks In August 1969, I found myself on steep and crumbling cliffs high above Boulder Creek, leading other novice climbers and childhood friends into unknown territory with an old hemp rope,
Deep in the Mountains, a Family Mine By Robin McRae Photos Courtesy of Robin McRae Recently, the author provided an account of minerals prospecting by his family as part of a 2017 report compiled by Richard H. Holm,
A Gold Rush Town Drowned By Robin McRae Photos courtesy of Robin McRae Some years ago, Doug Tims asked me to travel with him to the site of Roosevelt, a former gold rush town almost five hours’ drive
Was It Idaho’s Highest Mine? Story and photos by Ray Brooks Early one evening during the summer of 2015, as I drove up the road from Mackay that leads to Cliff Creek and eventually to Mammoth Canyon, a
As a young man, I had a job cleaning up tributaries and drainages above the Salmon River that had been fouled by years of mining. Beginning in the 1860s, miners left enormous piles of lead ore tailings when the easy gold ran out. Containers of mercury lay buried along stream banks. Continue reading
