page_title: Panamint Range
section_title: Mining
hierarchical_section_title: Panamint Range / Features / Mining
caption_attribution_description: Wildrose Charcoal Kilns, DVNP
context_page_description: The Panamint Range is a short rugged fault-block mountain range in the northern Mojave Desert, within Death Valley National Park in Inyo County, eastern California. Dr. Darwin French is credited as applying the term Panamint in 1860 during his search for the fabled Gunsight Lode. The orographic identity has been liberally applied for decades to include other ranges.
  The origin of the name is the Paiute or Koso word Panümünt or Pa and nïwïnsti.
context_section_description: The Panamint Mining District is on the western side of the Panamint Range.  Panamint City (est. 1873) was a mining town in the district, formerly in the central section of the range.  The historic mining community of Ballarat (est. 1890s), also in the district, is now a ghost town.   The Gold Hill Mining District (est. 1875) was in the southwestern section of the range, at the northeast end of Butte Valley. 
  The Wildrose Charcoal Kilns (completed 1877) are ruins of charcoal kilns located near Wildrose Canyon in the northern range and within Death Valley National Park. They were built in 1877 by the Modock Consolidated Mining Company, to provide fuel for smelters near their lead and silver mines in the Argus Range. The ten beehive shaped masonry structures, about 25 feet (7.6 m) tall, are the best known surviving examples of such charcoal kilns in the western U.S.
caption: Wildrose Charcoal Kilns
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