Cave Creek's "Golden Reef" Stamp Mill is the only operational 10-Stamp Mill in Arizona. Stamp mills were used a century ago to crush hard rock ore so that gold could be separated. Stamp Mill ...

The mill’s origins go back to 1861, when it opened as the Kelsey Mill during the mill-building craze of the Comstock Lode era ...

The Gold Coin stamp mill, located 13 miles west of Anaconda near Georgetown Lake, operated off and on for around 70 years, and as recently as the 1960s. Built into a hillside, the ore was gravity fed ...

ANGELS CAMP - These days, folks buy homes in and around Angels Camp because they want to hear crickets chirping, birds singing and not much else. When Angels Camp native Bob Porovich was a boy, he was ...

CALICO • The sounds of a 500-pound hammer crushing ore will echo through Calico for the first time in more than 100 years, as an 1870 vintage stamp mill found at the silver rush-era ghost town is ...

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