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
