Vulcan Mountain is a peak in

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, United States. Located about one kilometer south of the

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, it was named by prospectors for the presence of iron ore in the vicinity. Vulcan Mountain once had a

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. The Gold Dike Mine () was operated by Vulcan Mountain Inc. in the 1980s on the mountain's eastern flank, extracting gold and silver.

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