Sierra Buttes

USA / California / Whitehawk /
The jagged granite buttes were one of the greatest producers of gold in California. Known for a short time as the Yuba Buttes, they were rechristened the Sierra Buttes. The craggy Sierra Buttes were honeycombed with many miles of shafts and tunnels. The quartz taken from the mines was crushed in mule-powered arrastres, twenty of which were scattered about the mountain side. As many of the mines on the Buttes were over eight thousand feet high, equipment and supplies had to be brought in by mule or dragged in on sleds by men on snowshoes.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahoe_National_Forest
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Coordinates:   39°35'31"N   120°38'32"W
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