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| 2003-10-12 |
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| Prowler Owners gathered at Krispy Kreme in Mountain View and when we left for New Almadin we had 10 Prowlers. Upon our arrival we began learning so much about the 19th century mining of mercury in the New Almaden area south of San Jose. Terry Williams our wonderful park ranger gave us a personal tour of the museum including stories of the mining venture that are so little known to people even living close by. As she explained the name came from Almaden, Spain where almost all of the previous mercury came from. New Almaden at one time had over 1800 miners that worked the richest, largest (over 100 miles of tunnels!), and most profitable of all mines including all of the California gold mines combined! |
