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Almaden Reservoir from the Hidalgo Cemetery Trail.
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Ruins of the Mine Hill Rotary Furnace - used to extract mercury from cinnabar in the early 20th century.
Site of the old miners' Hidalgo Cemetery.
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Joan Pendleton
Dec 18, 2016 near Almaden Valley, CA
“Almaden Reservoir from the Hidalgo Cemetery Trail.”  

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Almaden Reservoir from the Hidalgo Cemetery Trail.
Site of the old miners' Hidalgo Cemetery.
From the thick woods down in the Deep Gulch Trail, the view looks across Deep Gulch to hills on the other side of the gulch (lighter green through the trees).
Ruins of the old Mine Hill mine on-site supervisor's home.
Getting close to the ruins of the Mine Hill Rotary Furnace - used to extract mercury from cinnabar in the early 20th century.
The entrance to the Main Tunnel of the New Almaden Mine was down there in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This was a cinnaber (mercury ore) mine.
Site of the Yellow Kid Tunnel entrance to the New Almaden Mine, a cinnabar (mercury ore) mine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Ruins of the Mine Hill Rotary Furnace - used to extract mercury from cinnabar in the early 20th century.
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