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Camp 2 Pit

N36° 24.508; W120° 40.812 at 3684 feet. In the 1950s and 1960s, the New Idria Mine began doing open pit mining. This was there second pit. There was a 500 foot escape shaft from the lower New Idria mine located here.

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