Iron Mountain Mine
Iron Mountain Mine, also known as the Richmond Mine at Iron Mountain, is a mine near Redding in Northern California, US. Geologically classified as a "massive sulfide ore deposit", the site was mined for iron, silver, gold, copper, zinc, quartz, and pyrite intermittently from the 1860s until 1963.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Quarry
- Description: mine in California, United States of America, United States of America
- Address: CA
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Keswick and Shasta.
Keswick
Hamlet
Keswick is a census-designated place in Shasta County, California. Keswick sits at an elevation of 732 feet. Its population is 188 as of the 2020 census, down from 451 from the 2010 census. Keswick is situated 4½ miles southeast of Iron Mountain Mine.
Shasta
Shasta is a town in Shasta County in the Shasta Cascades region of California. In the mid 19th century, Shasta was the commercial and shipping hub for northern California mines.French Gulch
Photo: NoeHill, CC BY-SA 3.0.
French Gulch is a community of 350 people in Shasta County in the Shasta Cascades region of California. The French Gulch Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
Iron Mountain Mine
- Categories: mine and industry
- Location: Shasta County, Shasta Cascades, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.67161° or 40° 40′ 18″ northLongitude
-122.52742° or 122° 31′ 39″ westElevation
3,186 feet (971 metres)Open location code
84GVMFCF+J2OpenStreetMap ID
way 961720917OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=quarry
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Japanese—“Iron Mountain Mine” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Iron Mountain Mine (minahan sa Estados Unidos, California)”
- Cebuano: “Iron Mountain Mine”
- Dutch: “Iron Mountain Mine”
- French: “mine Iron Mountain”
- French: “Mine Iron Mountain”
- Hebrew: “מכרה הר הברזל”
- Indonesian: “Tambang gunung besi”
- Japanese: “アイアンマウンテン鉱山”
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