Mojave Desert Mining History

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

Ghost Towns of the Upper Mojave Desert Hensher & Vredenburgh, 1986

My Wikipedia Entries and Edits

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Links to other Desert Websites

Source Material

• Scanned Scrapbooks of Historical Mining Articles
• Links to on-line references (updated often!)

California

• Gold Bearing Mercury Deposits of the Coast Ranges of California (pdf) 1982
• Stamp Mills of the California Desert

San Bernardino County

ALL THINGS EAST MOJAVE

Geology and Mineralization of the Whipple Mountains (pdf) 2016

Silver Mountain and the Oro Grande Mining Company (pdf) 2015

Mines of Ship Mountain (pdf) 2014

• Los Angeles Mining Review Articles (pdf)
• Los Angeles Herald Dec. 9, 1907 (pdf)

Mines of Old Woman Mountain (pdf) 2014

• Various Articles (pdf)
• California Division of Mines Articles (pdf)

Salt Production at Danby Dry Lake (pdf) 2014

• Mining and Scientific Press Articles
• Los Angeles Mining Review Article

• Calico (pdf) 2013
• Alvord Mine (pdf) 2011
• Copper City (pdf) 2011
• Palm Borate Mine Calico (pdf) 2010
• Oro Grande (pdf) 1999
• Chubbuck 1981, revised 1996
• Goldstone (pdf) 1998
• Goldstone 1998
• Fort Irwin Mininng History (pdf) 1994
• Fort Irwin Mining History 1994
• Mining in the Vicinity of Oro Grande, San Bernardino County 1992
• Industrial Mineral Potential of the Fort Irwin Area - John Rapp and Larry Vredenburgh (pdf) 1992
• Mines and Geology of Fort Irwin - John Rapp and Larry Vredenburgh (pdf) 1991
• Avawatz Range (pdf) 1988

Kern, Los Angeles, Ventura and San Bernardino Counties

• The Mojave Mining District, a Brief History of Gold Mining. (pdf) April 2020. Larry Vredenburgh
• An outline of the story of Trona, from BLM records. March 2014. (pdf)
• An outline of the story of Trona, from BLM records. Presented March 28, 2014 (pdf with notes)
• Mining History of the Western Mojave Desert and Southern Sierra
• Stauffer, Ventura County (pdf) 1982
• Stauffer, Ventura County James R. Evans, Larry M. Vredenburgh - 1982

Kern County - Saltdale, Redrock Canyon, Gypsite, Garlock

• El Paso Mountains, Saltdale, Gypsite, Garlock Hensher, Wilkerson, Vredenburgh (pdf) 1998
• Saltdale, Kern County Alan Hensher, Gregg Wilkerson, Larry M. Vredenburgh - 1998
• The History of Saltdale (pdf) Alan Hensher
• Garlock: The History of a Milling Town (pdf) Alan Hensher
• Gypsite: A Humble Product from a Humble Camp (pdf) Alan Hensher
• The History of Early Mining in the El Paso Mountains (pdf) Alan Hensher
  • Redrock Canyon Newspaper Clippings (pdf)
  • United States v. Long Beach Salt Comany, 1975. Interior Board of Land Appeals Decision (pdf)
  • Documents from the case file - United States v. Long Beach Salt Company (pdf)

Inyo County

• Resting Springs 1997
• Early History of the Resting Springs Mining District (pdf) Alan Hensher, Larry Vredenburgh 1997
• Resting Springs (pdf) 1997
• Panamint Range (pdf) 1988
• Reilly 1987
• Reilly (pdf) 1987
• A Peek Behind the Lace Curtains: The Social Lives of Death Valley's Boom Towns (pdf) Hensher, 1987

Riverside County

• The Midland Gypsum Deposit, Little Maria Mountains, Riverside County, California (pdf) 2016
• Orocopia Mine (pdf) 2012
  • Orocopia Mine (References) (pdf)

Biographies

• James H. Crossman - Biography 1979
• James H. Crossman - Contemporary account of death and funeral
• Thomas McFarlane (pdf)