Valley Wells

 camp, smelter, historic ruins

Also known as Rosalie or Rosalie Wells. The wells were drilled in 1898 by the Ivanpah Smelting Company for their copper smelter once located here. It smelted ore from nearby mines such as the Copper World and possibly Mohawk.

20 mule teams hauled copper matte (processed copper ore) first to Manvel (or Barnwell) every four days, and later to the new railhead at Ivanpah II. It was taken by rail via the California Eastern Railway, to the ATSF interchange at Goffs and then to New York for further smelting. After the new blast furnace was installed by the Ivanpah Mining Company in November 1917, copper matte was shipped to Cima and taken to Garfield, UT for further processing. When copper prices fell in 1918 with the end of the First World War, the smelter closed for good.

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