Copper Commander Mine: Cultural Landscape Inventory, Mojave National Preserve
Regions 8, 9, 10, and 12 Park Cultural Landscapes Program. 2023. Copper Commander Mine: Cultural Landscape Inventory, Mojave National Preserve. Cultural Landscapes Inventory Report. 976256. National Park Service. NPS Pacific West Office, San Francisco, California / CRIS-CL Database
The Copper Commander Mine is located in the northern portion of Mojave National Preserve. The property’s remaining features include one collapsed timber building, one storage structure, three rock wall segments, three stacked stone structures, one ore chute, one adit, three prospect pits, one tunnel, one ore stockpile, one shaft, one stacked-stone forge, one waste rock pile, one network of historic mountain trails, one artifact concentration, and one historic access road. At the request of the Preserve’s cultural resources staff, the entire mining property was documented as a historic district. Pursuant to Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), the DOE includes a description of the physical setting of the property; a historic context that includes a discussion of the developmental history of the property and its associated mining district, as well as a summary of historical mining activities occurring within the east Mojave; detailed descriptions of all documented features; and a summary of findings and recommendations for eligibility to the NRHP.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Regions 8, 9, 10, and 12 Park Cultural Landscapes Program
- Date of Issue
- 2023-09-29
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- MOJA , PWR
- Keywords
- Arthur Kunze, building ruins, Clark Mountain, economics, extraction, extractive facility, grave, industry, Mesquite Lake, Mike Conway, mine shaft, mining camp, outhouse, pack trail, prospect pit, S.E. Yates, stone forge, stone wall, technology, tunnel
- Subjects
- CRIS-CL: 976256: Copper Commander Mine
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International