Is it legal to collect at Ryan borax company camp?

Permission required. Ryan is privately owned and cared for by the Death Valley Conservancy, so nothing can be searched without its consent, and the surrounding Death Valley National Park bans detecting.

What can you find at Ryan borax company camp?

Barber and Mercury dimes, Buffalo nickels, wheat cents, railroad and mining hardware, company tokens, buttons, bottles

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Ryan borax company camp

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Nails and fittings

Coins and tokens

Buttons and buckles

Also reported: Barber and Mercury dimes, Buffalo nickels, wheat cents, bottles.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Unknown (Public domain).

Why this spot

1907-1928 borax mining camp, later hotel

Pacific Coast Borax Company camp and western terminus of the Death Valley Railroad, with electricity, a school, hospital, store and recreation hall. Borax mining stopped in 1928 and the camp then served as a tourist hotel into the 1950s.View source →