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Salero Santa Rita silver mine camp
Ghost town Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Nails and fittings
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: cartridge cases, mining tools, bottles.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Unknown (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1857-1920 silver mining camp
Built over old workings said to date from Jesuit times, the Salero Mine was reopened in 1857 by a Cincinnati company whose partners Wrightson and Hopkins were killed by Apaches. A new camp was founded in the 1870s by George Clark, had a post office from 1884 to 1890, and mining stopped sometime after 1920.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
unstable adobe ruins, old mine workings
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