Malakoff Diggin's with the i-phone.
The Malakoff is an old hydraulic mine just above Nevada City, California. Large volumes of gravity fed water were fed into giant water nozzles called "Monitors" in order to wash away whole mountainsides to recover gold, an environmentally disastrous mining method. My great-grandfather immigrated from Cornwall in 1860 in order to work the mines in the Sierra's; he settled in North Bloomfield, now a ghost town/state park about two miles from where these were taken. I took my wife, youngest daughter, and my future son-in-law here last evening to visit the old family stomping grounds. These shots only represent a tiny portion of these diggings. They stretch for miles under the trees which have regrown atop them.
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