Talk:Lost Blue Bucket Mine

location citations
GNIS catalogs a location called Blue Bucket Mine at 44.88349°N, -118.77941°W according to. The suggested GNIS search gives three results:  one each in Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona. The last is out of the question for an Oregon Trail legend, but the Nevada location is at 41.35629°N, -118.30793°W, only 394.5 km south of the Oregon location. Perhaps all of this should be in the article? —EncMstr (talk) 01:07, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Nevada?
But they were on a spur route of the Oregon Trail. Life does weird things, but Nevada?

dino (talk) 01:12, 23 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Frankly, I'm confused by the confusion about the coords. The mine this article is about may or may not have even existed. (And in fact was never a "mine" per se, but simply a place where gold was found.) Thus I don't think it should have a coord template, which implies the legendary mine in fact exists. There are three actual mines in the U.S. that have been named "Blue Bucket Mine" over the years. It's quite likely that they were named for completely different reasons than the legend described in this article. My purpose for linking to the GNIS query was to back up the assertion that there are three mines so-called, and to preempt any confusion the existence of these mines might cause. i.e. "What do you mean the mine is 'lost'? It's in Grant County."


 * Also to say its existence "traces" to 1845 is poor wording, sorry. The word "traces" in this usage is rather colloquial, and I think my solution was better. Also, single years generally aren't linked. But I'll take this off my watchlist as I don't feel like edit warring over it. Good luck. Katr67 (talk) 19:30, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

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