RUBY MINE Last week I shared that my family moved from Southern California to Grass Valley in 1974. Today I will share how we ended up...

Carbide lamps are an icon of underground mining.  Introduced in 1901, they were such a major improvement over candles that they were...

First Stock Certificate issued by Original Sixteen to One Mine Inc. the oldest Gold Mining Corporation in the United States! Issued on...

More than a million ounces have been mined from the depths of the Sixteen to One Mine making it a major gold deposit. The mine has been...

The Ruby Mine (aka Guatemala) is located at the north end of the Alleghany Mining District. In the 1850s prospectors followed a path of...