The Pinacate Mining District is 5 to 8 miles southwest of

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. It included the

Good Hope Mine Good Hope Mine was the principal gold mine in the Pinacate Mining District, Riverside County, California. Good Hope Mine was reputedly begun by a Frenchman named Mache, although the washes in the area were originally placer mined by Mexicans in ...

, Steele's Mine, Santa Rosa (Rosalia) Mine, Virginia or Shay Mine, Santa Fe Mine and many other smaller works like the Little Maggie Mine. It produced a total of about 104,000 ounces of

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through 1959, all from the lodes of various mines. The district declined until the mid-1930s, when attempts were made to rehabilitate the Good Hope and several other mines. These efforts were largely unsuccessful, the Good Hope mine closed when it was flooded with

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. Only three ounces of gold were produced in the district between 1943 and 1959.

References

Report of the State Mineralogist, California State Mining Bureau, State Office, 1893, pg. 384-385

Report of the State Mineralogist, California State Mining Bureau, State Office, 1894, pg 220-223
* Tom Hudson, ''Lake Elsinore Valley, its story 1776-1977'', 2nd Ed., Published by author, 1988.
Western Mining History, Riverside County California Gold Production
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