It can accommodate 60-tonne trucks, the haulage route within the mine was designed with efficiency in mind, and the East Portal is beside the primary crusher, which is close to the mill.

Located 60 miles southeast of Kingman in Mohave County, the remote McCracken Mine was discovered in 1874 by Jackson McCrackin and “Chloride Jack” Owen, for whom the Owen Mining District was named.

"Those days, the mill was rockin' and rollin'," said Marshall Tichauer, 78, a former miner who is now a tour guide at the Britannia Mine Museum. This month, Mill No. 3, which closed nearly 50 ...

It can accommodate 60-tonne trucks, the haulage route within the mine was designed with efficiency in mind, and the East Portal is beside the primary crusher, which is close to the mill. The ...