Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Silver City is a ghost town in northwestern Owyhee County, Idaho, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). At its height in the 1880s, it was a gold and silver mining town with a population of around 2,500 and approximately 75 businesses.
The Silver City Historic District is a historically significant mining area in northwestern Owyhee County, Idaho, United States. [1] It includes the abandoned town of Silver City and numerous nearby towns, mines, and mining remains, covering approximately 16 square miles (41 km 2). Along with Silver City, it encompasses the communities of Ruby ...
1890. (1890) Active. 1887–99, 1904–05, 1912–2001. Closed. 2001. (2001) The Sunshine Mine is located between the cities of Kellogg and Wallace in northern Idaho. It has been one of the world's largest and most profitable silver mines, having produced over 360 million ounces of silver by 2001.
Website. bunkerhillmining.com. The Bunker Hill Mine and Smelting Complex (colloquially the Bunker Hill smelter) was a large smelter located in Kellogg, Idaho, in the Coeur d'Alene Basin. When built, it was the largest smelting facility in the world. [2] It is located in what became known as the Silver Valley of the Coeur d'Alene Basin, an area ...
Silver Valley is a narrow valley about 40 miles (64 km) in length, east of the city of Coeur d'Alene. The South Fork of the Coeur d'Alene River flows through the valley and Interstate 90 traverses the valley between Fourth of July Pass to the west and Lookout Pass on the Montana border. Several towns are located in the valley, all in Shoshone ...
The Lucky Friday mine is an underground silver, lead, and zinc mine in the western United States, near Mullan, Idaho. [2] Operated by Hecla Mining company, it is one of the few mines remaining operational in the Silver Valley of northern Idaho, producing 1000 tons of ore per day. The ore deposit type is Polymetallic veins of hydrothermal origin ...
Silver mining in the United States began on a major scale with the discovery of the Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1858. The industry suffered greatly from the demonetization of silver in 1873 by the Coinage Act of 1873, known pejoratively as the "Crime of 73", but silver mining continues today. United States mines produced 1,170 tons of silver in ...
The southeastern end of the range including the old mining area west of Silver City is referred to as the Silver City Range. [4] About 8.3 kilometres (5.2 mi) west of Silver City is the De Lamar ghost town in Jordan Creek below the mine workings on De Lamar Mountain to the south. [4] The area was active in the late 1880s.