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The Bighorns ...
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Black Tarantula
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Southern Pacific Rattlesnake
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Desert Collared Lizard
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Baby Garter Snake
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Baby Rattlesnake Roadkill
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Jerusalum Cricket aka Potato Bug
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Pale Swallowtail
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Western Whiptail Lizard
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Fence Lizard aka Blue Belly
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Black Caterpillar
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California Tortoiseshell Butterfly
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Miner's Cabins ...
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Mine Cart In Allison Gulch
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Unnamed Waterfall in Devil's Gulch
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Swan Rock
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More Geology Wonders ...
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The Gold Mines ...

Allison Mine
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Big Horn Mine
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Unidentified Mine, Possibly Buel Ford Placer Mine
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Happy Day Placer Mine
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Holly Mine
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Heaton / Queenie Mine
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Horseshoe Mine
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Horseshoe Annex / Elvira Veuhoff Mine
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And of course, the famous Bridge To Nowhere ....
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Wow! Thanks for reminding us of all the wonderful things we've seen and haven't seen. I'm interetested in exploring more mines.
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girlhiker70 wrote: Wow! Thanks for reminding us of all the wonderful things we've seen and haven't seen. I'm interetested in exploring more mines.
Check out my website for more on the mines
Lost Mines of Los Angeles County
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Those are nice, but I believe this nail ball is the most wondrous thing in the East Fork. Kinda hard to find, too.

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Fused by dragons, no doubt... Unless Squatchy can breath fire.
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Elwood wrote:Fused by dragons, no doubt... Unless Squatchy can breath fire.
Yep. With dragon force it does 500 HP of damage. Or 250 if you want it to magically return to your hand after attacking the enemy.
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Sean wrote: Those are nice, but I believe this nail ball is the most wondrous thing in the East Fork. Kinda hard to find, too.

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Where in the world did you find that? That's ultra cool.
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CrazyHermit wrote:Where in the world did you find that? That's ultra cool.
It's in the cabin ruins near Stanley-Miller Mine.
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That whiptail lizard looks neat. Never seen one before. Are they rare?
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Sean wrote:
CrazyHermit wrote:Where in the world did you find that? That's ultra cool.
It's in the cabin ruins near Stanley-Miller Mine.
Awesome. I'll have to look for that.
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Sean wrote: That whiptail lizard looks neat. Never seen one before. Are they rare?
Those lizards are related to iguanas. They're super fast and get up to about 18 inches. Not rare though.
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Sean wrote: That whiptail lizard looks neat. Never seen one before. Are they rare?
That waterfall slide on your YouTube page is awesome. You're buddy looks like Freddy Kruger.
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Nice! Terminology question: I thought that "placer" mining referred to filtering river sediments and "hard-rock" mining referred to filtering rock you break off hard ground. But you have photos of several shafts labelled as "placer" mines. So what does "placer" mean then?
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dima wrote: Nice! Terminology question: I thought that "placer" mining referred to filtering river sediments and "hard-rock" mining referred to filtering rock you break off hard ground. But you have photos of several shafts labelled as "placer" mines. So what does "placer" mean then?
I'm not exactly sure why those mines have Placer in their titles. My guess is that those were operations that started out as placer claims and later became hard rock mines when they got some money to finance the hard rock mining. Good question.
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CrazyHermit wrote:I'm not exactly sure why those mines have Placer in their titles. My guess is that those were operations that started out as placer claims and later became hard rock mines when they got some money to finance the hard rock mining. Good question.
OK, that makes sense. Where did you get the names of the mines? Info about these old claims is a bit sparse.
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dima wrote:
CrazyHermit wrote:I'm not exactly sure why those mines have Placer in their titles. My guess is that those were operations that started out as placer claims and later became hard rock mines when they got some money to finance the hard rock mining. Good question.
OK, that makes sense. Where did you get the names of the mines? Info about these old claims is a bit sparse.
Some of the lesser known mines are listed on Western Mining History There are quite a few in the East Fork I haven't found yet.
The more well known ones can be found in John W. Robinson's books, Mines of the San Gabriels and Mines of the East Fork.
Hugh Blanchard also talked with some of the descendants of the original miners and found some information even Robinson didn't know about.
Gold Mines of Los Angeles County
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