A principally Au-Ag-W mining area located around Randsburg, in the NE Rand Mountains. NOTE: There is no listing for this locality in the USGS MRDS database. Location: The Rand or Randsburg district straddles the Kern-San Bernardino County line in the vicinity of the town of Randsburg, about 40 miles NE of Mojave and 30 miles N of Kramer.

A Ag-Au occurrence/mine located 1.2 km (0.7 mile) SE of Randsburg, along the W canyon wall of Fiddler Gulch. Discovered in 1893. MRDS database accuracy for this location is not stated. Mineralization is a hydrothermal vein deposit (Deposit model code: 151; USGS model code: 25d; deposit model name: epithermal vein, Sado; Mark3 model number: 28 ...

Garnet. Garnet is usually thought of as a gemstone but most garnet is mined for industrial uses. A very small number of garnets are pure and flawless enough to be cut as gemstones. The majority of garnet mining is for massive garnet that is crushed and used to make abrasives. Garnet is a silicate mineral group; in other words, garnet's ...

The Randsburg Mining District lies in Kern and San Bernardino counties in the northwestern Mojave Desert 240 kilometers NNE of Los Angeles, California, along U.S. Highway 395 (Figure 1). Three small towns within the district, Randsburg, Johannesburg, and Red Mountain, together have a population of 600 people. ...

Inside the Yellow Aster Saloon - Randsburg, California ca. 1897. As the decades passed the gold mines of the Rand district faded, but discoveries of tungsten at Atolia and silver at Red Mountain kept the towns of the …

Randsburg - California Ghost Town. RANDSBURG. No mine in recent history has been plagued by more legal problems than the Rand mine. First discovered in 1895 by three prospectors who had spent time in the Mojave and Death Valley area with little to show for it, the find created a rush to the area despite the merciless heat and the absence of ...

The Butte gold deposit was discovered in 1896 by three brothers — H.C. Sommers and Tate Ramie. By 1899, when the Butte Lode Mining Co. was formed, ore valued at approximately $140,000 had been produced. The …

A cry of "Gold " gave birth to the fantastic Yellow Aster Mine, the mother of the town of Randsburg. From the day of her discovery in 1895 by Mooers, Singleton and Burcham up to the war year of 1942, she spewed, at current gold prices, over $60 million worth of bullion from 50 miles of entrails and half of her mountainous body.

PUBLISHED: November 27, 2022 at 7:00 a.m. | UPDATED: November 28, 2022 at 7:30 a.m. To many of the 100 or so full-time residents of Red Mountain, a historic mining town on the northwestern tip of ...

The shipped ore averaged $40 to $50 per ton. Lower grade ore was being kept on dumps at the mine site to be run once the Yellow Aster mills were completed. Yellow Aster dividends for April, May and June totaled $24,000. On July 2, the Randsburg Miner reported the Yellow Aster as having produced $350,000 in bullion.

In September 1902 the Federation of Miners union of Randsburg demanded that the car men and shovelers (top-siders), who earned $2.50 per day, be paid the same wage as the underground miners, who earned $3. Singleton resisted, and by June 1903 the union was demanding $3.50 for the miners and $3 for the muckers.

By 1897 Randsburg was a boomtown of almost 4,000 people. The same year, three separate fires destroyed most of the original town, but some of the $60 million dollars in gold profits quickly ...

N24W69 Locality type: Mining District Köppen climate type: BWk : Cold desert climate Location: The Rand or Randsburg district lies athwart the Kern-San Bernardino County line in the vicinity of the town of Randsburg, about 40 …

California's Rand Mining District includes 737 nearby claims—267 active and 470 closed—and 207 nearby mines—4 occurrences, 91 prospects, 2 plants, ... The Rand or Randsburg district lies athwart the Kern-San Bernardino County line in the vicinity of the town of Randsburg, about 40 miles northeast of Mojave and 30 miles north of Kramer. ...

The Rand or Randsburg district lies athwart the Kern-San Bernardino County line in the vicinity of the town of Randsburg, about 40 miles northeast of Mojave and 30 miles north of Kramer. ... Most mining has stopped where unoxidized sulfides were found in the veins, and the maximum depth of development is 600 feet. Milling ore contains from 1/7 ...

BWk : Cold desert climate. Location: The Rand or Randsburg district lies athwart the Kern-San Bernardino County line in the vicinity of the town of Randsburg, about 40 miles NE of Mojave and 30 miles N of Kramer. The western part of the district, in Kern County, has been chiefly a source of gold, while the eastern part, in San Bernardino County ...

Welcome to Randsburg, a desert gold-mining town that struck it big more than a century ago. On a recent Thursday, staff photographer Jennifer Maher and I set out for a Randsburg adventure and were ...

206. 9/18/2020. Randsburg is a small town in the desert. Many off road vehicles can be found in the area. It's a nice place to visit during a day trip. It's known as a living ghost town that was once a mining area. Our 1st visit we walked the town which isn't that big and had lunch at the local restaurant.

Location. The Rand or Randsburg district lies athwart the Kern-San Bernardino County line in the vicinity of the town of Randsburg, about 40 miles northeast of Mojave and 30 miles north of Kramer. The western part of the district, in Kern County, has been chiefly a source of gold, while the eastern part, in San Bernardino County, has been ...

Rand Historic Mining Complex. Location: Randsburg, Red Mountain, and Johannesburg. Field Office: Ridgecrest Field Office. The Rand Historic Mining Complex (RHMC) includes three separate mining areas. It has been divided into three Operable Units: OU1, the Kelly Silver Mine area in Red Mountain, CA; OU2, the Yellow Aster Mine area in Randsburg, …

The Rand or Randsburg district lies athwart the Kern-San Bernardino County line in the vicinity of the town of Randsburg, about 40 miles northeast of Mojave and 30 miles north of Kramer. ... Gold mining in the Randsburg quadrangle: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 430, pp. 23-47. Hulin, Carleton D., 1925, Geology and ore deposits of the Randsburg ...

1. Yellow Aster Gold Mine Marker. Inscription. North of this sign is the famous Yellow Aster Gold Mine in Randsburg. Three friends, Fredrick Mooers, John Singleton and Charles Burcham discovered the Yellow Aster Gold Mine in 1895 and so was the beginning of the famous Rand Mining District! The Yellow Aster Gold mine was the richest in …

HARDCASH MINE. Summary: 1962: LOCATED SW1/4NW1/4 sec. 1, T30S, R40E, MDM, Rand district, in Fiddlers Gulch, 1 mile southeast of Randsburg. Two patented claims and 4 unpatented claims. Principal shaft is 250-feet deep on an incline of 60 degrees NE. Drifts a few tens of feet long have been extended northwest on the 80 and 150 foot levels.

About GMA. Producing GMA in Australia. GMA's mining operations in Australia produce a superior quality of mineral that comes from the garnet-bearing sands found near Port Gregory in Western Australia. Through a unique geological history of erosion and deposition, these dune sands owned by GMA contain the highest quality garnet available ...

Rand Mining District. The Rand or Randsburg district lies athwart the Kern-San Bernardino County line in the vicinity of the town of Randsburg, about 40 miles northeast of Mojave and 30 miles north of Kramer. The western part of the district, in Kern County, has been chiefly a source of gold, while the eastern part, in San Bernardino County ...

BUTTE MINE & MILL, RANDSBURG ~1949 2013 2013 2013 April 13, 2013 — Relics of the Butte Mill at Randsburg (off of Randsburg Cutoff Road, immediately east of town). The Butte lode was discovered in 1896 and most of the ore was milled on site. The mill was equipped with two-five stamp batteries. Gold and tungsten continued to be milled into the ...

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By 1900, Randsburg's 3,500 inhabitants had a 30-stamp ore crusher, bank, churches and theaters. Railroad tracks soon connected the nearby town of Johannesburg to Kramer's Junction, some 25 miles to the south. At the turn-of-the-century, when gold was worth only $12-$16 an ounce, Randsburg's famous Yellow Aster Mine recovered $3 million in gold.

1048. Nestled in California's Kern County and the Mojave desert lies the barely populated remains of what was once the booming gold rush town of Randsburg. When gold was discovered in 1895, Rand ...

Garnet (1) Gemstone (29) General Limestone (1) Germanium (1) Gold (1,971) Graphite (3) Gypsum-Anhydrite (2) ... Royal Bohee Group Near Randsburg, California. San Bernardino, CA County, California Location. Gold and Tungsten Commodity. ... Mine handled by the Bureau of Land Management are not mapped by latitude and longitude, …