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12-20-2013, 05:18 PM #1
Some mine hikes
Been in a few mines of late, haven't had to do too much vertical which is good. Lots of underground to get into down here although a lot of spots have been reclaimed or are gated.
You can rest when you're dead
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12-20-2013 05:18 PM # ADS
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12-20-2013, 08:03 PM #2
How tall are those mineshafts usually?
I mean the horizontal ones. Can you stand up easily in them?
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12-20-2013, 08:42 PM #3
RedFoxx are you in Utah?
My friends try to hit up a mine every weekend. They like Jacob City a lot and the Newfoundland Mtn range.
But they are trying to find a way into Bauer mine (one of the largest gold mines in Utah) but rumor has it that only way that doesn't have a blown entrance requires a 600ft rappel and ascension afterwards.
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12-21-2013, 03:17 AM #4
These mines are in Arizona. I am not very tall but I can stand up easily in these, although some stoop walking or crawling can be needed in some entrances and around some partial collapses. Where the bats were was easily 10 feet tall. Older adits tend to be small, the early miners didn't have the equipment and only removed enough rock to excavate the vein. Later miners tended to bore out tunnels and shafts to get the big equipment in to remove lots of rock. Not uncommon down here to be in a big mine and find little and big tunnels as later miners tried to get more ore out of old workings.
You can rest when you're dead
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12-23-2013, 09:40 AM #5
Which mines? I'm headed to the strip this weekend and am looking for inputs on three different mines.
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12-24-2013, 07:33 AM #6
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12-24-2013, 07:56 AM #7
Literally salivating with jealousy. Some of the rock in these pics looks like it may be a gold bearing deposit. The blue minerals in the wall looks like azurite/malachite, which is copper but also occurs frequently with silver, which is probably what the old timers where looking for. Do you have any further data about these mines ie when they were active, and what minerals were being mined? How far back did you wade through the flooded section?
It's only "science" if it supports the narrative.
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