Back in Tombstone, Arizona to slide down this mine shaft that represented new mine exploring ground that had not been explored before… The beauty of a site like this is that you really have no idea of what you’re getting into. Are we getting into an artifact-loaded, time capsule of a mine? That is always the hope and that has happened to us before in Tombstone. And wait until you see the truly incredible unexplored mine that I have for you soon! Having a mine on private property – as was the case here – can also help as it makes it less likely to have been ravaged by “collectors” or by government agencies that profit from erasing every mine that they can find.
In older mining districts that saw intense mining activity, such as this district in Tombstone, it is common for multiple mines to connect underground. That was the case at this mine as well when we unexpectedly dropped into the more modern workings. Aside from the heat and humidity, I wasn’t sorry about hitting those newer workings because the geology down there was pretty unique.
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Growing up in California’s “Gold Rush Country” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that colorful niche of our history is gone forever. But, you know what? We enjoy doing it! This is exploring history firsthand – bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a century, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.
So, yes, in short, we are adit addicts… I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!
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