Keeler Mine
This was a smelting site for a mine near the town of Keeler. This is off of Highway 136 that leads to Death Valley from Lone Pine. We were thinking of going to the Cerro Gordo Ghost Town, but the road conditions looked like it would be a slow drive and we didn't have enough time for the side trip. Instead, we went to this processing site and looked around.
I picked up some of the more interesting slag from the site and I'm going to share it with my kids at school where I teach. I'm going to see if they can guess what it is before I show them this picture and talk about the mining. We study about communities and how they grow in my grade level. We've talked about the California Gold Rush and this will give us another type of mining to talk about. They probably smelted zinc at this site from what I read online.
Keeler Mine
This was a smelting site for a mine near the town of Keeler. This is off of Highway 136 that leads to Death Valley from Lone Pine. We were thinking of going to the Cerro Gordo Ghost Town, but the road conditions looked like it would be a slow drive and we didn't have enough time for the side trip. Instead, we went to this processing site and looked around.
I picked up some of the more interesting slag from the site and I'm going to share it with my kids at school where I teach. I'm going to see if they can guess what it is before I show them this picture and talk about the mining. We study about communities and how they grow in my grade level. We've talked about the California Gold Rush and this will give us another type of mining to talk about. They probably smelted zinc at this site from what I read online.