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  • Jack Hamm

Jack Hamm

27 Apr 2024
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The view from the upper workings of the Bald Peak Mine looking northwest over Pinto Peak and into the Cottonwood Mountains.

Bald Peak Mine, Wildrose District: More Than Just Talc?

The Bald Peak Mine is one of the more obscure mining sites in the Wildrose Mining District in the Emigrant Canyon area of Death Valley National Park. It's a former talc mine (we'll get into that more because I don't fully agree) located in
16 Jun 2026 5 min read
How Badwater Got Its Name

How Badwater Got Its Name

A Parenthetical in the Desert Most famous place names come from drama. An explorer plants a flag, a pioneer survives something harrowing, a prospector strikes it rich. Badwater got its name from a surveyor who couldn't get his mule to drink. When USGS surveyors were mapping Death Valley
01 Jun 2026 3 min read
Further afield: The South Klondyke District

Further afield: The South Klondyke District

The district sits fourteen miles south of Tonopah in the Klondyke Hills, tucked into east Esmeralda County just shy of the Nye County line. Elevation around 5,500 feet. The terrain is what you expect from the central Nevada high desert: sagebrush flats giving way to pale volcanic hills, the
31 May 2026 8 min read
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