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Empire Mine

Empire Mine, United States. Heritage site, underground, mining gold.

Why Empire Mine is famous

Operated 1850 to 1956, with Cornish miners from about the mid-1850s. It closed during the Second World War, reopened in 1945 and closed for good in 1956. Deepest shaft is more than 5,000 vertical ft (the 1,524 m figure converts 5,000 ft and is a minimum).1,2

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Empire Mine today

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An example ofBurra (Monster Mine)Cornish miners worked Empire from the mid-1850s. Burra's 1,000 workers were mostly Cornish.1An example ofHomestake MineEmpire's deepest shaft passed 5,000 vertical feet. Homestake's lab sits on its 4,850 ft level.1

Sources

  1. Empire Mine State Historic Park California State Parks
  2. Wikidata entity Q5374101

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).