Blue Point Mine
Once devastated, now rich in natural beauty
The Blue Point Mine was at one time the largest and richest of all California's placer hydraulic mines, working from the early 1870s all the way to World War II. Today, all that remain are sheer, towering, 300-foot cliffs rising above groundwater-fed ponds. Once one of the most devastated landscapes imaginable, Blue Point is today rich in wildlife, wetlands and natural beauty. A reclamation plan, completed in 2007, resoiled and seeded the valley floor, and a rare pair of endangered peregrine falcons nest on the cliff face high above the valley floor.
- Blog: Blue Point - The Greatest Mine of All
- Blog: Blue Point - the Tarr Mine Project of the 1920s
- Blog: Blue Point - What About the Gold?
- Blog: Blue Point Basin Reclamation Project
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