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Ray Mineral Creek copper camp

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Nails and fittingsNails and fittings
Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: mescal and beer glass, company store ceramics and tins.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1910s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Mineral Creek

Copper camp with a large Sonoran community that was later erased by pit expansion; Sanborn coverage from 1915.

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