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[*] posted on 12-8-2020 at 11:08 AM


Osprey ('Jorge') was a great guy, indeed. I am so glad I met him, in 2017. I could finally give him a copy of the book he wrote such a nice reference to.



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[*] posted on 12-8-2020 at 01:13 PM


Some of those old posters were really great. I was not on here then but seems like some of the esprit de corps has been lost with their passing.

DK, I have seen the pictures of those old miner's caves, dug in a cliff on the south side of the arroyo, in the UCSD digital photography collection. You can still see the same cliff, but no caves, other than a couple of small ones by the new bridge. I think the caves may have been buried under sediments from flash floods.

The "Ruins" were built by a mining outfit around 1905. The miners were Yaqui Indians from Sonora, who dug the caves to sleep in. Since the El Camino Real coming north from Gonazaga turned west up towards Santa Maria before arriving at this stretch of coastline, there was no trail to easily access this area, and prospectors did not discover the Miramar deposit until relatively late in the mining era in Baja.





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[*] posted on 12-8-2020 at 06:15 PM


Thanks Ric,
The old mine maps of 1905 show a trail from El Mármol to the gulf, perhaps in Arroyo El Volcán. When some of us Nomads/ Amigos de Baja explored and found a waterfall (dry) that prevented El Volcán as a passageway... at least now.

In 1956, the Miramar mine warehouse, El Almacén.



The cave homes by the Miramar placer fields.





Thanks to Howard Gulick for taking so many wonderful photos, 70 years ago!




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