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See West End Road Mines, Santa Catalina Island, California
Before the Gold Rush in 1848, there were rumors that gold had been discovered on Catalina which causes a mining boom on the island in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
In the 1830s, a sea otter hunter and fur trapper named George C. Yount claimed to have discovered gold-bearing quartz in the hills of the Cherry Valley cove.
Although it promised a gold boom for Catalina, it did not prove financially successful. There was not enough ore to warrant a large-scale mining operation.
When the stock market crashed in the 1920s and the Great Depression hit the United States, the last of the mining operations ceased and mining on the island disappeared, leaving nothing except for a few holes in the ground as evidence of the Catalina boom.
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