Exploring The Abandoned Coyote Mesa Mine - Part 1 of 2

According to my research, this was a tungsten mine (of which there were many in the area) and came into existence during World War II as a result of the American government’s insatiable demand for tungsten. The military application of tungsten comes from how dense and hard the mineral is. Given these properties, it shows up in places like missiles and grenades. Germany used tungsten during World War II to produce armor-piercing projectiles for anti-tank weapons. The tungsten allowed for a high muzzle velocity and, therefore, even small caliber weapons and light field artillery could still be devastatingly effective.

I started at the top with this abandoned mine and worked down because I hiked up to figure out what that ore chute on the side of the hill was. Now that I know what it is though, it just raises even more questions. What the hell was it doing just hanging out on the side of the hill like that? Oh well, I guess we can’t figure out all of life’s mysteries, can we?

This was a fun abandoned mine to explore… It had multiple drift levels and lots of twists and turns inside that were filled with interesting features. Plus it was dry, which is one of the most attractive features of desert mines! As mentioned in the video, we will cover the other side of the hill in the second video. The additional workings on the other side are part of the same mine. However, the two sides do not connect underground. Each side is independent of the other.

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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 niche of our history is gone forever. But, guess what? We have fun 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 hundred years, 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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