Lost Horse Gold Mill, Twentynine Palms, San Bernardino County, CA
Summary
Significance: The Lost Horse Gold Mine and Mill is a prime interpretive exhibit of efficient early western gold-mining practices and compactness of design, whereby the mine's ten-stamp mill was located directly over the shaft being mined, thus negating the need for transporting ore to a central collection point for processing.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N683
Survey number: HAER CA-128
Building/structure dates: 1893 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Lang, George W
Lang, Johnny
Holland, Ed
Fife, James J
Tingman, Alfred G
Location
Twentynine Palms (Calif.), 34.13556, -116.05417
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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