Miner's Mineral Monument

This is a monument to mining itself. Kingman's Historic Preservation Commission recreated the Miner's Mineral Monument to honor the industry that built Mohave County from the late 1860s onward, setting samples of the county's own ores into the structure. Gold at Oatman and Gold Road, silver at Chloride and in the Cerbat Mountains, and later copper and manganese all passed through Kingman, the county seat and rail shipping point. The monument gathers a little of each, a civic thank-you cast in the very rock that paid the bills.

What the plaque says

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others., Pericles, The City of Kingman Historic Preservation Commission Proudly has recreated this "Miner's Mineral Monument" in recognition of the mining industry throughout Mohave County from the late 1860's to present day., Minerals from around Mohave County are placed in this recreated monument to pay homage to the miners and mining companies who brought so much to Kingman and Mohave County.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Kingman — steps away
  The working hub of Route 66 in Arizona — a railroad town named for a surveyor, Andy Devine's hometown, and the last real stop before the road's two wildest endings.
• Oatman — 22 mi
  A gold camp in the Black Mountains that outlived its mines, now run by wild burros — reached by the wildest switchbacks left on Route 66, and named for a history worth telling straight.
• Hackberry General Store — 23 mi
  Looks like a junkyard, is a shrine — the 1934 store an artist brought back from the dead, and the Route 66 stop that inspired Fillmore in Cars.

More markers nearby

• Depot — steps away
• Depot Plaza — steps away
• Central Commercial — steps away
• Hotel Brunswick — steps away