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The Lost Dutch Oven mine

California · Clipper Mountains, eastern Mojave (San Bernardino County)

A Mojave tale from the 1890s: a dying prospector stumbling out of the Clipper Mountains left behind a dutch oven packed with nuggets beside a rich ledge he never mapped. Desert rats have combed the Clippers for the pot and the ledge for a century and change.

Where it is

Clipper Mountains, eastern Mojave (San Bernardino County)
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The source

No single published account; the story is carried locally.