Chronological list of mining and prospecting related sites that I have visited, along with information pertaining to them. I have intentionally omitted names and other identifying information from sites that could be considered hazardous or should otherwise not be disturbed.
Mineshaft and Prospecting Site: Visited 4/25/26
Site Features: 1 ~35 foot shaft, tailings, 1 collapsed adit (not located), several pits & trenches, numerous rusted metal scraps
Prospected Commodity: Gold, Silver
Images: Hillside tailings and the vertical shaft (would not recommend falling in).
Lower Hillside Adit: Visited 4/21/26
Site Features: 2 adits (1 intact but foam-filled, 1 entirely caved)
Prospected Commodity: Gold
Notes: Disapointing
Image: The lower of the two adits, which was filled with foam (likely to keep people out of the 70 foot tunnel) presumably since the last survey of the site, which was undertaken in 2001.
Bi-Metallic Mill, Phillipsburg: Visited 12/28/25
Site Features: 100-Stamp mill, multiple out-buildings, disused ore processing equipment (e.g. steel drums and boilers), & 2 standing smokestacks
Primary Ore Processed: Silver
Year Constructed: 1888 (Image of the mill c. 1894-96)
Image: The remains of the main stamp mill, now mostly demolished.
Granite Mine, Granite Ghost Town: Visited 7/10/20
Site Features: Countless mining ruins strewn across the hillside above Granite Ghost Town, including a 20-stamp mill, an 80-stamp mill (later merged into 1 mill), and a rasied trestle for minecarts, along with the Ruby Mineshaft (fenced off and collasped into a pit above these structures)
Primary Commodity Extracted: Silver
Year Constructed: 1880s-1890s
Notes: Needs a revist for better images, but this is area helped start my interest in finding further mine-related locations.
Images: Housing and trestle for ore to be carried via minecart to the stamp mills and a deteriorating structure that I believe may have been part of the orginal 20-stamp mill
Mill, Comet Ghost Town (Not Fully Visited: On Private Land)
Site Features: Well-preserved tin-sided mill and boarding house (foreground)
Primary Ore Processed: Silver
Year Constructed: 1926
Image: The Comet Mill
