CAMP BIRD - famous Colorado Gold Mine - 1934 Start Price USD 19.95 Current Price USD 19.95 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, October 07, 2008 End Time Tuesday, October 14, 2008 Location Borne See more about 'CAMP BIRD - famous Colorado Gold Mine - 1934' Description CAMP BIRD Nice old option certificate of the famous Colorado Gold Mine: CAMP BIRD. It's dated october 3rd, 1934. Still in excellent condition with some minor damage at the sides. I accept paypal. Shipping and handling will be 5 dollars. From Wikipedia: The Camp Bird Mine is a famous and highly-productive old gold mine located between Ouray and Telluride, Colorado. The mine is within the Sneffels-Red Mountain-Telluride mining district in the San Juan Mountains. It was discovered by Thomas F. Walsh in 1896, and is (or was) owned by the Federal Resources Corp. The mine produced about 1.5 million troy ounces of gold, and 4 million troy ounces of silver, from 1896 to 1990 [1]. Walsh sold the property for $US 5.2 million in 1902. Walsh's daughter, Evalyn Walsh McLean, later purchased the Hope Diamond. Walsh died in 1909. Camp Bird is named after the "Camp Birds", probably Rocky Mountain jays [2], that ate many a miner's lunch [3]. Telluride native David Lavender related his experiences working at the Camp Bird Mine in the 1930s in his classic memoir One Man's West. C.W. McCall sang "Way out in Colorado, in the Camp Bird Mine, down deep in the darkness, on level nine..." [4] The Camp Bird Mine filed for a permit to resume mining in late 2007, [5] but remains inactive as of August 2008. [6] Powered by eBay Turbo ListerThe free listing tool. List your items fast and easy and manage your active items. Place a Bid!