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California Rand  Silver Mine Article and pictures by Natasha Petrosova  Red Mountain, CA located within Rand Mining district in San Bernardino County. Before becoming Red Mountain the town was known as Osdick.  Osdick was founded in a summer of 1919, during near by town's Randsburg third boom.  Pete Osdick was one of the first miners in town and wanted the town to be named after him.  Another miner , W.H. Williams who also discovered California Rand Silver Mine felt that the town should be named Hampton after his middle name.  Both men applied for a Post Office and Pete Osdick won in February 1922.  The area officially became known as Osdick. During first four years of operation , The California Rand Silver Mine , also known as Kelly Mine would produce seven million dollars in ore.  It was one of the richest mines in California.  Charles Moroney , General Manager, said about the Mine " Drifts 104 feet, rai...

Randsburg  Article and photography by Natasha Petrosova  Randsburg mining district is on  San Bernardino-Kern County line.    This is the most important district in Kern County because even though half of the district belongs to San Bernadino most of Gold was found in western Kern County. It also contains the largest  gold mine in the county, Yellow Aster. John Singleton, Charlie Burcham and F.  M. Moores, discovered Yellow Aster or Rand Mine in April 1895.  Rand mine takes its name after South African mining district because it resembled a profusion of its  minerals.  The camp became Rand camp and later Randsburg.  Randsburg mining district eventually consisted of three small neighboring towns: Randsburg, Johannesburg and Red Mountain. In 1880 , wondering prospectors from El Paso district discovered that the Summit Range, that is located northeast of El Paso Mountains also had placer values and be...