TREASURE HOUSE RELICS Project
Storm Mountain Mine

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View of the mine dump as seen from the climbers trail just above the canyon highway c.2005   
Donald K. Winegar - Tintic Images
 

Location data

QUICK LOCATION PATH: Utah / Salt Lake County / Big Cottonwood District / Big Cottonwood Canyon / Stairs Gulch

 
Approximate GPS Location:

40.37.309 N - 111.44.803 W  (field) 

 

Approximate Elevation:

5820'  (field) 

 

30 x 60 Minute Map:

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH

 

7.5 Minute Map:

DROMEDARY PEAK, UTAH

 

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Overview of the Storm Mountain Mine area showing location and access c.2011  (Click image for larger view.)
Image Copyright 2010 - Google Earth TM

 

What remains

A caved portal that is lined with stacked stone on either side and a small dump is all that remains at this lower level. When I first visited this site, a small outhouse was still standing in the trees, though heavily damaged. Now it has completely fallen.

There is another dump and caved portal about 30 yards above the one shown, but like this one, nothing remains except the dump.

 

Note: It is possible that this mine, what I call the Storm Mountain Mine, and the Stairy Gulch Mine, talked about on the next page, may be the same thing. I do not know this, and so for now I will treat them as separate entities.  
 

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View from the caved portal of the Storm Mountain Mine looking north c.2007   Donald K. Winegar - Tintic Images
 
 

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Stacked stone retaining wall on the west side of the portal threshold c.2005   Donald K. Winegar  -  Tintic Images
 

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