Giant Ledge Mine
Mojave National Preserve, CA
The Giant Ledge Mine, also called the Hard Cash Mine, is dug into granite along Caruthers Canyon in the New York Mountains of the Mojave National Preserve. Miners worked copper ore here in 1926 and 1927, leaving shallow adits, timber-lined shafts, and a tailings pile scattered up the canyon wall. Bright turquoise and blue copper minerals still stain the tunnel walls, and weathered wooden ore chutes and collapsed headframes mark the surface workings.
