Gold Dust Mine, Mill & Camp Complex, Wards Gulch, Salmon, Lemhi County, ID

Significance: The Gold Dust Mine, Mill, and Camp are locally significant as a representative example of the small lode mines which operated in the Leesburg Basin during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Because Leesburg was primarily a placer mining area, these mines were few in number and accounted for only a small percent of the area's gold production. Among the most long-lived of the Leesburg lode claims was the Gold Dust; it operated sporadically between 1895 and 1939.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N11
Survey number: HAER ID-24
Building/structure dates: 1903 Initial Construction