Gallery 1: Historical

A few feet east of crosscut. 8ft vein "yielded $10,000 in specimen gold from this spot." - E. MacBoyle

Single Deck Cage, Dec 1939

Idaho-Brunswick Connection at 31 Vein (Brunswick 2300L). 0.17ft elevation difference, 1940

Heavy sulphide-bearing, frozen, high-grade vein in ankerite. Vein has no gouge and is very irregular. Quartz probably assays $250-500/ton. Note small faults in ankerite.

1300L-3D-6 Stope at #9 Raise; 20ft vein abruptly narrows to 8ft vein - which continues to above 1100L.

Idaho 1300-3D-1S at 1250 Level; 10ft vein of excellent-grade. Heavy slabs in book structure.

1250L-13D-1 Stope; 36ft cut and fill stope on mineralized diabase.

1050L - 3 Drift at 3 Stope; 4.5ft excellent gold ($200±)

Brunswick 1600L - 31D; 31 Vein has widened as it nears the 6-3 Fault

"Brunswick 1450-416D; Inclusions are rimmed with carbonate. F.W.D. found a sack of highgrade at this face which I missed!"

Brunswick 1100L-616D; Narrow Vein in Zebra Rock, 1940

Brunswick 1000L-12D-3S-Raise; ±80ft east side, 1941

Brunswick 900-616D; Heavy sulphurets and gold (Au) in partly ribboned vein, 1940

Abundant gold (Au), sphalerite, pyrite, galena; minor chalcopyrite, molybdenite, etc.

Idaho 2700 Level 602 Drift, 1941

Sinking "30" Winze on #2 Vein; Idaho 2400L to 2700L. 1 beam and bucket, 1940

Quartz Vein in Brunswick Mine, 900-ft Level

Idaho Quartz Mine - Lithograph from Thompson & West's History of Nevada County, 1880

Motormen loading ore cars from ore pocket at No. 30 winze on the 2000-ft Level, Idaho Maryland Mine

Cornish Miners in Uniform

Gold Bars Stacked in a Pyramid

Underground work in the Mine, man with pick & man pushing ore car

Vertical man skip at the Idaho Shaft, Miners ready to go underground to work, 1937

Early Interior of the Mine Stamp Mill, Idaho Maryland Quartz Mill

Interior of the Idaho-Maryland Stamp Mill, ca. 1930

Hoist Equipment at the Idaho Maryland Headframe

Idaho Maryland Quartz Mine, 1400-ft Level, Men with transit and quartz vein in the background

Man underground with quartz veins

Showing vein of Gold-bearing quartz on 1600-ft Level

Vein in face of East End of Drift, 1700-ft Level. Free milling, high grade gold bearing quartz.

"Grass Valley Miners" crew picture at the Idaho Mine

Looking East to the Idaho Maryland Mine, Photo taken by Victor L. Dorsey, ca. 1894

Steel headframe under construction

Steel headframe under construction

Man at the collar of the Idaho Maryland incline shaft, holding lamp & ore

Albert "Bert" Crase, General Manager, (left) at the collar of the Idaho Maryland incline shaft

Dorsey Footwall vein, 1900-ft Level

Electric trolley with men riding the ore cars, 2000-ft Level

Electric trolley locomotive, built by Idaho Maryland Mine

Idaho Maryland Mine, Grass Valley CAL.

Idaho Underground Crew Photo, Idaho Maryland Mines Corp., 1938

Victor L. Dorsey (Assistant Superintendent) in the mine. Victor L. Dorsey, youngest son of Samuel Dorsey - president of Maryland Quartz Mining Co. which held Maryland Mine & Idaho Mine until 1919. Dorsey Vein (No. 2 Vein) discovered in Idaho Mine in 1894.