Florence mine and Newmont mill, Goldfield, NV, circa 1948

Subjects: Factories & Mills Mining & Quarrying Mountains & Hills
Card type: Real photo
Date: c. 1948 (Chrome)

Back of Florence mine and Newmont mill, Goldfield, NV, circa 1948, Columbia Mountain, NV, USA, c. 1948 real photo postcard — Back

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The photograph looks over the Newmont Mining Corporation's Goldfield operations, with the headframe of the old Florence mine rising at center and the 100-ton cyanide mill at right. Columbia Mountain fills the background. The Florence was one of Goldfield's early bonanza mines, and by this time it served as the main working shaft for the Newmont operation. The mill was built in 1948 to treat ore from a 1947 gold discovery on the White Horse claim, ground that old-timers in the Goldfield district had long considered barren. Columbia Mountain was where Harry Stimler and Billy Marsh made the first gold discovery on the Sandstorm claim in December 1903, setting off the rush that built Goldfield into one of Nevada's great boom camps.

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PublisherPete Photo Service

GOLDFIELD FLORENCE, BONANZA PRODUCER OF GOLD ORE Major mine and mill workings of the New- mont Mining Corporation in Goldfield where a great new discovery of rich gold ore was made on the White Horse claim in 1947 in an area believed by the old timers of the Goldfield dis- trict, to be barren. In this picture can be seen the headframe of the famous old Florence mine, one of the early-day bonanza mines of Goldfield, now serv- ing as the main working shaft for the entire Newmont operation. At the right is the 100-ton cyanide mill erected in 1948 to treat ore from the new discovery. In the background is Columbia mountain, where Harry Stimler and Billy Marsh made the first discovery of gold on the Sandstorm claim in December, 1903, touching off a stampede that was to explode into a roaring, raw mining camp of 50,000 souls within the period of a few short years.

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Publisher	Pete Photo Service
Condition	Good
Place depicted	Columbia Mountain, NV
Place depicted	Goldfield, NV
Stamp	none Kodak printed stamp box ("-Kodak- PLACE STAMP HERE --Paper--"), imperforate
Notes	Black-and-white real photo postcard; printed caption text on image; light crease upper right. No postmark. Divided-back Kodak real-photo postcard, unused: no stamp, no address, no message. Handwritten dealer/collector code "RMLJ3—" at top center. White border around the photo; glossy real-photo surface.

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Florence mine and Newmont mill, Goldfield, NV, circa 1948, postcard, c. 1948. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/florence-mine-and-newmont-mill-goldfield-nv-circa-1948. Accessed November 2, 2026.