Unusual Abandoned Copper Mine In The Nevada Desert - Part 2

I’m guessing you’ll see my point about this being among the more unusual abandoned mines out there after the conclusion of this video… Have any of you ever seen anything like this before? We’ve come across samples before – even warehouses full of core samples – but nothing like this.

As I mentioned before, the peak amount of activity at this mine seems to have been around World War I. Some sense of the community that certainly thrived here – even if just for a brief time - can be derived from what is seen in the video. However, there were a lot of foundations and other evidence of habitation, such as can dumps and unidentifiable bits of metal that I didn’t include in the video. All of this is suggestive of a sizable community here in the past.

The stockpile of samples is, obviously, more recent than World War I. This stockpile appears to be the result of a mining company or a group of miners that was interested in the minerals in this site (probably impressed by the same deposits we were impressed by) in more recent decades and conducted a VERY thorough analysis of the area through extensive sampling. For whatever reason, they chose not to proceed with initiating mining operations. Perhaps commodity prices were too low or the remaining deposits just weren’t rich enough? This group put a major investment into obtaining and organizing those samples though. It seems a shame for the results of all of that intensive research to be abandoned and vulnerable to the first vandal that comes along and scatters the samples everywhere or torches the buildings.

Some have observed that the timbers inside of these mines look more recent than World War I, but the dry, desert conditions of Nevada preserve these old mines amazingly well. Materials that are underground are out of the sunlight as well as the weather on the surface. Simply taking weather and sunlight out of the equation does wonders for preservation. We have visited mines where crude timbers hacked out of trees surrounding the mine close to one hundred and fifty years earlier still look as if they were hammered into place a month before.

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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, 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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