RADEMACHER MINING DISTRICT

The Rademacher Mining District, organized in the 1890s, is located east of the Sageland District some 15 miles north of Randsburg and 5 miles south of Ridgecrest. This district was most active in the early 1900s and again in the 1930s, although one mine in the area, the Jolliver, is said to have been discovered in 1851 as a silver-lead mine. It is on the south slope of El Paso Peak. The free-milling gold ore of this district averages a half-ounce or less in gold per ton. Thirty or more mines exist in this area, ranging in depth from 50 to 200 feet. The Gold Bug and Bellflower are the oldest mines in the district, and both were reworked in the 1930s. Two-thirds of the mines in the Rademacher District appear to be shallow prospects worked during the Depression by one or two men at each claim.9