The Eureka Mine, Aguereberry Camp, Death Valley National Park
In late October we visited the Eureka Mine and the remains of Pete Aguereberry's camp in Death Valley National Park.
Pete Aguereberry was a renowned Death Valley prospector who mined gold in this area for over 40 years.
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Exploring The Workings And Trails Of The Ashford Mine - Death Valley, California
This video describes our visits to the Ashford Mine and camp in Death Valley National Park on 4-1-2019 and 4-3-2019. On our first visit on 4-1 we attempted to hike to the top of the aerial tram to explore the tram mines but ended up taking the Overlook Trail instead. The Overlook Trail is quite scenic and fairly easy. We went back to the mining camp from the overlook and explored the workings in the area including the main shaft. We went back to the area on 4-3 and found the Tram Mines Trail and followed it to the top of the tram and explored the workings there. The trail to the top of the tram is also very scenic and fairly easy.
There is a good bit of history associated with this particular gold mine and camp, which we visited last year, which we find very interesting. It never was a profitable venture as far as gold production goes, however, profits were made from the leasing and selling of the mine and equipment more than once. Here is some of the history I wrote for the video we made last year:
The abandoned Ashford Mine and camp is also known as the Golden Treasure Mine and has an interesting history behind it. The loop hike was about 4½ miles long, took 3½ hours to complete and had an elevation gain of 1280 feet. The route involved some rock climbing up a few dry falls on the way up the wash. We took a different wash down from the camp and then a trail that led back to our starting point to make a fun loop. The mine was in production off and on from 1907 to 1941. It was started by Harold Ashford and his two brothers in 1907 after they acquired the claim under some odd circumstances. They worked the claim sporadically until 1914 when they leased it to Benjamin McCausland, who further developed the mine and erected the 40 ton mill in the valley below to process the ore. After investing a lot of money and digging over 2000' of tunnels the mine failed to payoff for McCausland and the mine and all the equipment was returned to the Ashford's. The mine was worked minimally until 1935 when it was re-opened by an agreement with the Golden Treasure Mining Co. who worked the mine for a few years before giving up in 1938 and returning it again to the Ashford brothers. They eventually leased it to another company who built an aerial tram that was used to collect the ore from the many workings scattered up the mountain, but they also found the deposit too poor to be worth mining. In 1950 the property was finally idled for good and Ashford estimated total production was $135,000 about half as much as had been invested in development and equipment.
Road to Eureka mine from Aguereberry Point (Death Valley)
Road to Eureka mine from Aguereberry Point (Death Valley) December 2016
Episode 58: Boondocking in Death Valley National Park; Green Water Valley
This video describes a free dry camping boondocking area inside Death Valley National Park (you need to pay the park entrance fee if you don't have a pass).
It is the only area where this is allowed. I stayed here for 1 week right before Thanksgiving. I hope you get some use out of my video. ENJOY!
36.253066°, -116.651568° is the spot I was at.
No cell service here! But there is at nearby Dante's View:)
Eureka Mine and Harrisburg (Death Valley)
Eureka Mine and Harrisburg (Death Valley) December 2016
Echo Canyon Trail - Death Valley National Park, CA
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Echo Canyon boasts some of Death Valley's best qualities with its spectacular scenery, twisty canyons, rock arches, and mining history. This road is very popular among visitors as it can be easily driven with most street-legal vehicles and it is less than ten minutes away from the popular Furnace Creek Inn.
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Aguereberry Point, Death Valley National Park
Aguereberry Point is a 6433 Ft Elevation viewpoint located in the Panamint Mountains on the West side of Death Valley National Park.
Looking down into the valley you have great views of the Devils Golf Course and Badwater Basin far below.
From California highway 190, take Emigrant Canyon Rd South after 12 miles signs will point to Augereberry Point.
The road to Aguereberry Point is dirt and gravel. It starts out flat then winds thru a small canyon before climbing steeply the last 1/2 mile to the parking area. Passable by most high clearance vehicles.
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Exploring Saratoga Spring And Talc Mines - Death Valley, California
This video follows us as we explore the Saratoga Spring area and the Saratoga Mine group on 3-22-2019 in Death Valley National Park, California . We rode our Yamaha TW 200 from the intersection of Hwy. 127 and Ibex Spring road, to Saratoga Spring, a distance of 11 miles. We hiked to three mines which make up the Saratoga Group of talc mines and explored the area. We saw some great ore bins and entered as many underground workings as we could.
Death Valley Curly & The 1885 Mine
The mining district where this mine is located was famed for its rich silver production... I would love to tell you more about the history of this mine than that. However, with these early mines (subsequent research leads me to believe that the 1885 carved into the wooden door may well be accurate), there were often few – if any - written records. That is particularly the case with a smaller mine such as this one where I was unable to even determine a name, let alone production records or the identities of the original miners that worked there. I don’t know if “Death Valley Curly” ever mined here or not, but I’d love to know more of his story as well.
I am curious to know how the miners decided on the location of this mine. The surface of this site was made up of broken rocks from an ancient lava flow and there didn’t appear to be any minerals that would have caught the eyes of the miners. I suppose they might have had a hunch that the lava flow had covered up a good deposit of silver ore, but why here? Perhaps one of the geologists in the audience will correct me, but a lava flow of this type seems like really unpromising ground to run a mine into. The smaller size of the mine might be confirmation of that speculation on my part.
Despite starting out with relatively drab colors, the adit really exploded with color around the end of the haulage adit where that significant winze was. I’m partially colorblind, but that really popped even for me. So, I can only imagine how it looks for those of you enjoying the ability to fully see color. I believe that that would have been an interesting place to try out a blacklight.
I am not sure what inspired the miners to run that ridiculously deep winze straight down toward the end of the haulage adit. Perhaps they were giving up on continuing to drive ahead horizontally as they had been? Or perhaps they found some promising indicators as they were working down? The other work branching off from the haulage adit seemed exploratory in nature or perhaps the miners had come across a small pocket or two along the way, but nothing significant. Regardless of the reason for its creation, I remain very curious about how deep that winze runs and if there are any additional levels down there.
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Growing up in California’s “Gold Rush Country” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that colorful niche of our history is gone forever. But, you know what? We enjoy doing it! This is exploring history firsthand – bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a century, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.
So, yes, in short, we are adit addicts… I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!
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Road to Eureka mine from Panamint Valley (Death Valley)
Road to Eureka mine from Panamint Valley (Death Valley) December 2016
Death Valley Off-Roading Day 3: Steel Pass
FJ Cruiser and Adventure Trailer driving (off-road 4x4) from Saline Valley Lower Warm Springs to Eureka Dunes, via Steel Pass (including a visit to the Marble Bath), December 28, 2018
Dedeckera Canyon 4x4 - Death Valley National Park 4K
Toyota 4Runner TRD Pro climbing at Death Valley National Park in Dedeckera Canyon.
7 Things to See in Death Valley with Kids
7 Things to See in Death Valley with Kids
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Death Valley National Park is an American national park that straddles the California—Nevada border, east of the Sierra Nevada. The park boundaries include Death Valley, the northern section of Panamint Valley, the southern section of Eureka Valley, and most of Saline Valley. The park occupies an interface zone between the arid Great Basin and Mojave deserts, protecting the northwest corner of the Mojave Desert and its diverse environment of salt-flats, sand dunes, badlands, valleys, canyons, and mountains. Death Valley is the largest national park in the lower 48 states, and the hottest, driest and lowest of all the national parks in the United States. The second-lowest point in the Western Hemisphere is in Badwater Basin, which is 282 feet (86 m) below sea level. Approximately 91% of the park is a designated wilderness area. The park is home to many species of plants and animals that have adapted to this harsh desert environment. Some examples include creosote bush, bighorn sheep, coyote, and the Death Valley pupfish, a survivor from much wetter times. UNESCO included Death Valley as the principal feature of its Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve in 1984.
A series of Native American groups inhabited the area from as early as 7000 BC, most recently the Timbisha around 1000 AD who migrated between winter camps in the valleys and summer grounds in the mountains. A group of European-Americans, trapped in the valley in 1849 while looking for a shortcut to the gold fields of California, gave the valley its name, even though only one of their group died there. Several short-lived boom towns sprang up during the late 19th and early 20th centuries to mine gold and silver. The only long-term profitable ore to be mined was borax, which was transported out of the valley with twenty-mule teams. The valley later became the subject of books, radio programs, television series, and movies. Tourism expanded in the 1920s when resorts were built around Stovepipe Wells and Furnace Creek. Death Valley National Monument was declared in 1933 and the park was substantially expanded and became a national park in 1994.
The valley is actually a graben with the oldest rocks being extensively metamorphosed and at least 1.7 billion years old. Ancient, warm, shallow seas deposited marine sediments until rifting opened the Pacific Ocean. Additional sedimentation occurred until a subduction zone formed off the coast.
In 2013, Death Valley National Park was designated as a dark sky park by the International Dark-Sky Association.
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Keane Wonder Mine - best mine to explore in Death Valley
From 1903 through 1917, the Keane Wonder Mine was one of the most profitable mines in the Death Valley region, with over one million dollars of gold extracted. Today, it is one of the best preserved and easy to explore mines in Death Valley National Park for those willing to drive off-road, and go on a short hike.
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Crosstrek Off Road in Death Valley National Park 4K
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A Subaru Crosstrek Off Road Adventure in Death Valley National Park. The adventure starts in Las Vegas, and goes to Beatty to catch a sunrise. Then it's on to Harrisburg, Eureka Mine, Aguereberry Point, and the Wildrose Charcoal Kilns in Death Valley for the off road adventure. From there, it's back to Vegas via the scenic byway of Wildrose Rd in Death Valley.
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Eureka Mine to Aguereberry Point.3gp
The last part of the ride to Aguereberry Point, Death Valley, CA
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Eureka Mine-Cashier Mill-Pete Aguereberrys Camp
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Death Valley, March 2016, Eureka Dunes
In February 2016 there were multiple media reports of an impending Super Bloom in Death Valley National Park. A once in a decade event, the lure was too much for me. So, I packed up my gear and headed to California. While I fully expected to not be the only person to think of this, I was confident that my Jeep would allow me to access areas too remote for the madding crowds.
This is the third full day of my stay in the park. It was Friday morning and my plan was to head up to Eureka Dunes. When I arrived the previous night, after buying just enough gas in Panamint Springs to get me back to a dollar a gallon cheaper gas in Furnace Creek, the gas station was too busy and I was tired. So I figured I’d refuel this morning. Except they were out! So, running on fumes, I headed to Stovepipe Wells, where I found gas and was then ready to head up to Eureka Dunes. On the way I’d pass Mesquite Flat dune field and Devil’s Cornfield. After my return from Eureka Dunes, I'd stop a shoot a few stills of the Harmony Borax Works.
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Skidoo, Death Valley, Cal
A fun 9-mile dirt road gets you to the Ghost Town of Skidoo. There's not much left to see of the town at all, but there are a number of mines and old structures along the way. Check out this 4-1/2 minute video, please comment, like and subscribe. Take a look at my website for more pictures and information: Cali49.com