Bodie State Historic Park is open 9am-6pm in summer (May 15th - Oct 31st) and 9am-3pm in the winter (Nov 1st - May 14th), and is best explored in warm weather in spring, summer and fall. Peak season is Memorial …
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Introduction to Bodie's Mineralogy. Fortune seekers who rushed west in 1849 expected to find gold quickly. Employing methods known as "placer mining," they dug nuggets and …
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Still, Bodie's penchant for trouble gave rise to one legendary figure, though his fame was short-lived. [2] Evoking peril and doom, the "Bad Man from Bodie" was a name recognized across the country. The title drew upon "bad man," a popular 19 th century expression that meant "ruffian," "tough guy," "gunfighter," or "cold ...
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The Bodie district is in eastern Mono County about 18 miles southeast of Bridgeport. History. Gold was discovered here in 1859 by William S. Bodey, and the district was …
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The Bodie district is in eastern Mono County about 18 miles southeast of Bridgeport. History. Gold was discovered here in 1859 by William S. Bodey, and the district was organized in 1860, but activity was minor until 1872, when rich ore was discovered. From 1876 to about 1884, a rush was on with much production from rich but shallow deposits.
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Later, the ore eventually extracted from the Bodie Hills amounted to millions in gold and silver. Mining in Bodie was slow in the 1860s and 1870s due to valuable strikes in Aurora, Nevada and at the Comstock Mine in ia City. From 1863 to 1877, only a small handful of indusus miners and prospectors worked the Bodie mines. In
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Beginning in the early 1860s, the industrialization of underground mining reached the western frontier and vastly improved the odds of profiting from quartz mining. Steam power was essential, but two other important inventions eased the miner's formidable task of drilling and blasting rock. Dynamite.
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Description of Mine Workings: the Bodie Mine (aka Bodie Project) includes the area of historic, primarily underground mining in the Bodie Bluff and Standard Hill areas. More than 90 percent of the ore from the lode deposits in the Bodie Mining District came from historic mines in the Standard Hill area.
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World War II closed the plant after a six-year run, leaving Bodie abandoned once again. When it was over, California's Division of Mines and Geology recorded the district's overall production at almost $34 million. 8. Bodie enjoyed a brief but intense revival from 1928 to 1931, when several highly financed mining companies moved in.
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WebBy Michael H. Piatt. Bodie consisted of scattered placer diggings, prospect holes, and cabins when J. Ross Browne sketched the district in 1864. Not until the Bunker Hill Mine …
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The new owners erected a twenty stamp mill on the property and changed the name of the claim now known as Bunker Hill to The Standard Consolidated Company. These new owners took out the enormous sum of $6,396,270. The total production of all mining done in Bodie is estimated to be between 95 and 100 million. Source:Cain, Ella M.,
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Based on three decades of research, this book tells the story of mining in the former boomtown of Bodie, CA. Woven throughout are accounts of gambled fortunes, engineering marvels, and vigilante uprisings. Tracing Bodie's history from the discovery of gold in 1877 to the departure of its last residents in the 1940s, the book includes scores of never …
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October 2007 . Getting Gold and Silver Out of Rocks: Milling Ore at Bodie. By. Michael H. Piatt After miners broke mineral-bearing ore from the surrounding rock and transported it …
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The town of Bodie, Mono County, California was the site of a discovery of gold in 1859 by William Bodey. A small mining community was established but little ore was located. In 1863 a number of claims were consolidated into the Bodie Bluff Consolidated Mining Company but despite the infusion of capital, the area remained a minor district.
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Bodie State Historic Park is a genuine California gold-mining ghost town. Visitors can walk down the deserted streets of a town that once had around 2,000 structures and a population of roughly 8,000 people. ... In 1875, a mine cave-in revealed a rich vein of ore, which led to purchase of the mine by the Standard Company in 1877. People flocked ...
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By. Michael H. Piatt. Introduced to Bodie in 1893, electric power was an important innovation in the remote mining community, where an economic revival was badly needed. But, Californians had been experiencing electricity's marvels for more than two decades. Beginning in 1871, demonstrations of arc lighting by a professor at Saint Ignatius ...
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After another month's work, Standard's entire operation at Bodie closed in October 1913. During 37 years of mining and milling at Bodie, the Standard Company had produced …
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gold and silver ore at its Bunker Hill Mine. With that, Bodie's brief boom began. ... 104 2020 Mining History Journal recorded 2,712. The town's population continued to decline …
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Bodie was established as a mill town about 1900. At one time it had a store, post office, cookhouse, bunkhouse, and hotel. Almost every resident worked for the Perkins Milling Company. A giant stamp mill processed much of the ore taken from the Golden Reward, Bodie and the Elk (later the Golconda) mines. Business was good up until the late ...
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History Of Mining Mill Mills T07:08:46+00:00 Bodie History: Milling Ore from Bodie Mines. After the Mono closed in July 1880, the Standard pumped water from its own main shaft, beginning in November, and sent it through the Bulwer Tunnel to the Standard and the BulwerStandard mills After industrialscale mining ceased in 1913, a well dug in …
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IN 1938, THE CAPACITY OF THE MILL WAS INCREASED TO 125 TONS/DAY, AND CYANIDATION AND FLOATATION CIRCUITS WERE ADDED. MINING AND MILLING WERE CARRIED OUT UNTIL 1944, WITH AS MANY AS 40 MINERS WORKING THREE SHIFTS AND PRODUCING AS MUCH AS $1500 OF AU AND AU A DAY. FROM 1930 …
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Bodie History: Milling Ore from Bodie Mines. Because silver was more difficult to recover than gold, mills treating Comstock silver ore routinely missed between 25% and 35% of the ore's assay value.
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of gold have rekindled interest in mining the Bodie district, which hasn't been mined since the 1950s (Scheck, 2011). Milling in the Bodie Mining District Eight mills operated in the Bodie district by the 1880s (Chesterman et al., 1986); one such (abandoned) mill was visited by the author. Gold ore was carried up from the mine in
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Photo Description. Erected in 1879, this building served as a general store. It was owned by Harvey Boone, a direct descendent of Daniel Boone. Harvey was a great horse fancier and also owned the Boone Stable and Livery business. Note the five-gallon cans used as siding (seen at the extension at the back of the building in the photo below).
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By the time Bodie boomed twenty years later, "quartz" implied much more than the conventional mineral, defined in 1881 as "any hard gold or silver ore, as distinguished from gravel or earth." (Raymond 1881, 167) Recent descriptive terms, such as "lode" or "hard rock" mining, have been applied to underground gold and silver ...
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In 1879 the stock of the Standard Mine, of Bodie, was $20 per share. Within a year $6.25 per share, or 31 per cent., has been paid in dividends, and the stock has advanced to $30, or 50 per cent, on cost, making a total profit of 81 per cent, on the investments made at that period. A short time ago Bodie was a small mountain town of, perhaps ...
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(Daily Bodie Standard 7 July 1879) Until mid-1879 Giant, Hercules, and Vulcan products were distributed to Bodie's mining companies from a magazine centrally located near the Standard Mine. In July the magazine inexplicably blew up, killing seven men, injuring more than 40 other people, and demolishing one of the Standard Company's hoisting ...
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The die was a flat, hard, round piece of metal, mostly matching the stamp shoe in diameter, where the slurry mix of water and ore would sit until the stamp dropped down and pulverized it. Bodie Cemetery. Earthquake Map. Bodie's source of gold came from hard rock mining – mining that requires breaking apart ore to extract gold that's ...
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Stamp Drive, Bodie State Historic Park. Bodie's boomtown residents, 1879 (R.E. Wood stereoview. Courtesy, California State University Chico, Meriam Library, Tom Rodgers, donor) Miners outside the Bulwer Tunnel about 1900. A wooden flume in the background conveys tailings from the Standard Mill to. the company's cyanide plant.
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Bodie, California, materialized as a gold-mining town in 1859 when William S. Bodey first discovered flakes of the precious metal a few miles from the border dividing California from Nevada. By 1879, the population of Bodie had grown to about ten thousand residents. However, as the era of the gold rush came and went, so did Bodie's prosperity.
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