Grand cyn. Gold mines

[H-2 CHARLIE]

Never hear of any mining in the cyn . never hear talk of mines in there .
Anyone know about this ?

 

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[Jim in Idaho]

I know there were some mines downstream of Lake Mead. There are still remnants of the old towns. This would be on the west side.
Jim

 

[Terry Soloman]

Grand Canyon National Park (Notes)

 

[rodoconnor]

Lee, of Lee's Ferry and of the notorious Mt. Meadows Massacre reputedly had a very good Au mine there.

 

[Gene Slater]

Actually took a helicopter ride over the canyon. The pilot made two 90 degree turns. He said it was to avoid a gold mine that had a paranoid owner that had shot at them once. Id say there is gold there.

 

[KevinInColorado]

Back in the day, The Orphan Lode mine produced ore with a dozen metals (!!)) in it. According to the USGS it's Relative position was 1200 FT BELOW S RIM 1.5 MI FROM BRIGHT ANGEL LODGE NEAR POWELL POI NT.

There were placer gold mines at Lee's Ferry and in what is now the upper reaches of. Lake Powell. Reportedly neither of those mines did well financially. But yes there's gold and no, since it's a national park you can't take any. (Can't take stuff of any sort from any national park unless a specific park has a specific exception (as two in Alaska do for us placer gold miners!)

 

[goldenIrishman]

To the best of my knowing there's only a handful of working mines left within the park boundries. Since it's a National Park it would next to impossible to get a new one permited for operation. The AZGS site has some records on mines within the park boundries that I've downloaded but have yet to go through them for all the details.