An Underground Mine Full Of Lloyds

More oddities than we normally encounter in this abandoned mine, but I’ve learned to expect the unexpected when mine exploring… Sometimes warnings of dangers inside abandoned mines caution one about uncovered pits or bad air, but this is the first ambiguous “Danger Haunts” warning I have received. You saw what was fifteen feet ahead from that message. There was a pile of wood (so moldy that I thought it had been painted white) and a slightly stoped back (the “roof” or “ceiling” of the adit). It didn’t exactly scream DANGER!!!! to me.

I found reports about this mine dating back to the early 1900s and these reports referenced work done earlier than that. As this mining district was quite active in the 1800s, I believe it is a pretty safe assumption that the mine was most heavily worked during that time frame. A fairly eclectic mix of minerals is present here, such as red jasper, biotite and lead carbonate.

The early maps I saw of the mine did not include all of the features we saw during this visit, but confirmed that at least one raise ran to the surface. Had the miners located any deposits on the surface, it would have been awfully convenient to simply dump the ore down a hole to the adit below rather than having to use a tram system to get it down or having to haul it down by hand (or by mule).

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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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