History of Mojave Desert Mining

Desert Fever Vredenburgh, Shumway, Hartill - 1981
An overview of mining in the California Desert Conservation Area

An Overview of Mining in the California Desert 2005

My Wikipedia Entries

Historic Photos

Geographically enabled photos of the Mojave Desert on the Panoramio website.

San Bernardino County - East Mojave Desert

The Historical Mining Towns of the Eastern Mojave Desert Alan Hensher - 2005

A brief summary of East Mojave Desert Mining History 1995

Early Mines of Southern Clark Mountain, Northern Mescal Range and Ivanpah Mountains, San Bernardino County. 1996

Later Mines of Southern Clark Mountain, Northern Mescal Range and Ivanpah Mountains, San Bernardino County. 1996

Mining History of the Silurian Hills, Shadow Mountains, and Halloran Springs Area 1996

San Bernardino County

Mining in the Vicinity of Oro Grande, San Bernardino County 1992

Chubbuck
1981, revised 1996

Goldstone, Mining History
1998

Fort Irwin Mining History
1994

Mining Claims in the East Mojave (Download zipped MS Access database - transcribed by Ted Weasma)

Mining Claims in the Standard Mining District (transcribed by Ted Weasma)

Mining Claims held by Riley Bembry (transcribed by Ted Weasma)

Kern, Los Angeles, Ventura and San Bernardino Counties

Mining History of the Western Mojave Desert and Southern Sierra

Saltdale, Kern County Alan Hensher, Gregg Wilkerson, Larry M. Vredenburgh - 1998

Stauffer, Ventura County James R. Evans, Larry M. Vredenburgh - 1982


Inyo County

Reilly 1987

Resting Springs 1997

Biographies

James H. Crossman - Biography 1979
James H. Crossman - Contemporary account of death and funeral
Thomas McFarlane

 

Source Material

The Barstow Printer 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915-1917 (Transcribed by Ted Weasma)
The Mining and Metallurgical Journal 1897 - 1900 (pdf)
(Transcribed by Alan Hensher)
The Mining Reporter (Selected East Mojave articles 1899 - 1907) Transcribed by Ted Weasma.
The Calico Print (East Mojave only - transcribed by Ted Weasma)
The Salt Lake Mining Review

Fact or Fiction? The Mint at the Mescal Mine (Los Angeles Times, December 8, 1895) contains just enough factual details to make you wonder!

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