In the mid 1800s Malakoff Diggins was the site of the world’s largest hydraulic mining operation. Powerful canons blasted the hillsides, reducing the towering layers of sedimentary rock, quartz and ...

The Friends of North Bloomfield and Malakoff Diggins and the Sierra ... North Bloomfield cemetery at Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park on Saturday. Chris Ward, author of “Cemeteries of the Western ...

Malakoff Diggins is one of California's lesser known state parks. The park was created in 1965 to preserve the controversial story of our country's largest hydraulic gold mine which devastated the ...