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Sterling Borax Mine
Tick Canyon


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NPS COLLECTION

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Panorama: Mine, Mill, Camp 1912

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Camp & Tailings

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Shaft Headframe

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Dinky Wreck

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Inside Shaft ~1984

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Collapsed Timber ~1984

Collapsed timber inside the Sterling Borax mine, circa 1984. The man pictured is Melvin English.* According to Deric English (pers. comm. 2021), Melvin was a U.S. Borax & Chemical Corporation employee who entered the Sterling mine to ascertain the water level and perform other tasks for U.S. Borax.

From the Borax Collection, Death Valley National Park, National Park Service, Cat. No. LAN75.

Located in Tick Canyon at Davenport Road between Sierra Highway and Agua Dulce, the Sterling Borax mine was active from 1908-1921. The tailings are still visible along Davenport Road; the camp is gone, but some of the dwellings still exist.

Read about the mining operation here.

*Previously misidentified as his co-worker, Kevin Doxey.


sw_lan75: 9600 dpi jpeg from this jpeg image courtesy of Stan Walker.
STERLING BORAX MINE

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History/Description (CA Div Mines 1954)

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Sterling Borax Story (Keebler)

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Stephen Mather Story (Shankland)

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Scorza Video 2007

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Points of Interest

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L.A. Times 1907

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Origins 1907-1908

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Orig. Corp. Seal 1908

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Ink Blotter ~1910s

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Multiple Views

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Dinky Locomotives (Mult.)

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Mine, Mill, Camp (Mult.)

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Teacher Hired 1923

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Inside Shaft ~1984 x2

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Tick Canyon Howlite in Smithsonian 2014

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Tick Canyon Howlite

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Modern Times

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