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Bodie mine

Bodie mine, United States. Heritage site, underground, mining gold.

Why Bodie is famous

Gold found in 1859 by W. S. Bodey and E. S. Taylor, and Bodey died in a blizzard that November. The Standard (Bunker Hill) strike in the mid-1870s made it a boomtown from 1877, with about 8,500 people in 1879. Decline began in 1881 and a fire struck in 1932. It is preserved in arrested decay as a state historic park.1,2

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What kind of deposit

Epithermal vein (Creede type)

Bodie today

Where gold is mined todayMining in United States

Where next

Mines

Same kind of depositComstock LodeComstock was exhausted by 1881. Bodie became a boomtown from 1877.3

Places

Located inBodieBodie sits at Bodie.1

Deposit types

An example ofEpithermal vein (Creede type)Bodie belongs to the epithermal vein family of deposits.4

Sources

  1. Bodie State Historic Park brochure California State Parks
  2. Wikidata entity Q832945
  3. Circular 1170, Comstock Lode US Geological Survey
  4. Mineral Deposit Models (Bulletin 1693, Cox and Singer, eds., 1986) US Geological Survey

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Super Pit, Kalgoorlie by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0; Underground mining equipment by Kaupo Kikkas, CC BY-SA 4.0. Pictures: Gold prospectors constructing a long box with a filter for panning gold. Process print after H.M. Paget, 1899., Henry Marriott Paget (Public Domain Mark 1.0); Pangkalpinang. Mijn 3b. Een reeks koelies bezig met het transporteeren van grond, Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0).