Off-road to Tucki Mine and Mill, Death Valley National Park, California

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Tucki Mine is located along the edge of a steep-sided wash. The wash slopes to the east for a half mile before continuing down a series of dry falls and onto an alluvial fan that comes out 3.5 miles west of Furnace Creek. The Site is located in Death Valley National Park and Inyo County, California, on the southeast slope of Tucki Mountain in the Panamint Range. The Site is located 10.5 miles south of Stovepipe Wells and 12 miles west of Furnace Creek - 2.5 miles to Telephone Canyon fork. It is accessed from Emigrant Canyon Road via a 10-mile rough 4x4 road in Telephone Canyon. It is an easy trail into Tucki Mine. The wash is narrow in a couple spots and the canyon is generally wide. The mines and mill site cover nearly three acres, with the bulk of the operation located on the south side of the wash. During operation the cyanide processing plant consisted of four steel-lined, concrete block tanks, two water reservoirs, crushing equipment, and a pump. Today only the concrete tanks remain. The rest of the processing setup was removed after the Site shut down in the early 1980s.Tucki Mine was first claimed in 1909 by Henry W. Britt, and changed hands and was leased several times. There is no record of significant activity in the mine's early decades. In the 1930s, ore was processed off-site, but a mill using cyanide began at the Site in 1940. The mine produced $846 of gold per two weeks in 1940. The mine was dormant in the 1950s and 1960s. In the mid-1970s the mine operators constructed a gold recovery plant to use carbon filtration and sodium hydroxide (and later zinc) to leach oversized material from old tailing piles. Tucki Mine and Mill Site is no longer active.

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