Circa 1994, having recovered the ore car from the New Era mine near Pentz, Butte County, California, Bill, Tom, Scott and John (driving the tractor) unload the ore car at its temporary resting place in Red Bluff.
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Museum pieces
Ore car
Tom, John, Scott, Bill and Macland work to free an ore car from a dead cottonwood tree at the New Era mine near Pentz, Butte County, California.
Ore car at New Era mine
Ore car at New Era mine near Pentz, Butte County, California. The ore car still sat on the rails laid by Bill’s great-grandfather, John O. Gaumer.
Mine entrance at the New Era mine
Bill and Macland circa 1994 at the New Era mine near Pentz, Butte County, California. By then, the main mine entrance was partially caved in and overgrown with trees and brush.
The incline entrace at the New Era mine
Bill’s great-grandfather, John O. Gaumer, dug the incline tunnel through the mountain, to meet up with the main mine shaft.
Ore car from New Era mine
Scott, John, Tom, and Bill Gaumer circa 1994. The Gaumer men after they retrieved an ore car from John O. Gaumer’s gold mine near Pentz, Butte County, California.
Graveyard Point plume agate dig
Graveyard Point plume agate dig
Imperial Jasper
Royal Imperial Jasper from Zacatecas, Mexico
Laguna Agate
Laguna Agate polished nodule
Gaumer’s museum mine
Gaumer’s mineral and mining museum mine entrance