The Mt. Baker mining district was host to the last large gold rush after the Klondike days with lots of burnt out and spend miners prospecting for gold in the Mt. Baker national forest. The gold rush was sparked when 3 lucky individuals found gold specs in a quartz vein near Twin Lakes. This became the site of the Lone Jack Mine, with 3 separate claims combined into one: The Lone Jack, The Lulu and The Wist. Each of these claims was developed with a mine shaft, and at multiple times in its early history there was a significant development of mine buildings to process the ore, but each was taken out by the areas massive snowfall and avalanches. While the Wist is still active when the price of gold is high enough, the other two portals are no longer being used. Here are a couple of images from Karl Palmer, Rene Crawshaw and myself checking out the mine shaft last week.
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