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Article: SOUTH PASS CITY TO OFFER CARISSA MINE TOURS

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August 26, 2009
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CHEYENNE, Wyo., June 1 -- The Wyoming Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources has issued the following news release:

Public tours of South Pass City's Carissa Mine will be held on various Saturday during June through August.

The tours will be held June 13, 20; July 18, 25; and August 1, 15, 22.

Tours, beginning in the South Pass City parking lot, will take the public through the Carissa Mill House and the newly reconstructed Head Frame and Trestle. Reconstructed last summer, the 67-foot-tall and 450-foot-long log structure making up the Head Frame and Trestle illustrates the way ore was lifted from the mine and transported to the Carissa mill house.

In 2003, the Wyoming State ...

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