One interesting thing there is a wooden “flume” partly exposed and partly buried in the ground and running away and downhill from a small pile of old stamp sand.

From the very small size of the stamp sand pile and the wooden boxed flume itself, I wondered if that stuff might go back to a VERY early date? (i.e. 1840s-50s?) Didn’t the North American totally give up the ghost by the 1860s?

Risky to speculate on dates, however, as we know these mines have ruins built on top of earlier ruins like layers at the lost city of Troy! A sharp industrial archaelogist would probably know; in fact they need to conduct a total survey to locate and tentatively date all the old mine ruins if that hasn’t already been done. Explorer is doing the preliminary legwork and no mistake.

A little more detail perhaps… after the trail crosses the river, it will take a turn to the right. After a little bit it will make another turn - this time to the left up through the cut. If you look to the right at this turn - you should see it. Basically if you simply follow the trail’s direction at the point it makes the turn (but don’t make the turn - simply continue straight into the woods) you should hit it.

The only adit entrance I’ve seen along those cilffs is near the North American - have yet to find one at cliff though I know one is there somewhere.

Maybe I’m not up to an even dozen yet.

I spent Saturday walking along the base of the cliffs from the North American ruins to the Cliff cemetery. One of the interesting items I found was, apparently, the old Cliff Mine adit — covered, but fairly obvious with the snow cover.

As far as I can figure Albion Rock is above and a little southwest of N.A. Gap on the highest part of the Cliff. Apparantly in the early days it was a landmark on the Albion location with the best view along the Greenstone Ridge but apparantly has been forgotten since that time.

Nice website and my first visit.