You can visit mine sites in Death Valley and environs – some just steps away from your vehicle, and others after arduous hiking. If you want to have a piece of a mine’s history, say a bottle, rusting can, or a piece of machinery, you’re depriving the next explorer from getting the sense of discovery you just experienced. If the mine or mill site is on lands administered by the National Park Service, Department of Agriculture (National Forest) or Bureau of Land Management, federal laws prohibit disturbing or taking artifacts. If a site is on private land, removing objects is plain stealing.
Scripophily provides a means to own a physical piece of mining history without disturbing a mine site, trespassing, or law-breaking.
Scripophily: The collecting of paper documents, particularly stock and bond certificates of corporations.
The documentation of the history of a mine, mill or an associated business can through the collection of ephemera can help understand how a mine was promoted and worked.
Ephemera: Pamphlets, notices, and tickets, and other common paper items intended to be of use for only a short time, especially when preserved as collectibles.
This website to shares our collection of historic stock and bond certificates associated with Death Valley. Brief histories of mines are included where historic information is available.
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Death Valley Mining History - Thru Scripophily 