After climbing nearly 5000 feet in elevation on an old and challenging mine road, we parked the Jeep and were amazed at what we saw. A mountainside full of vintage abandoned mining equipment lay before us. There are two huge generators, a jaw crusher, beautiful winch powered by a gasoline engine, two ore bins, conveyor belt and much more. There is also a collapsed cabin with a lot of interesting artifacts strewn about. After checking out the lower equipment we climbed up the mountain to find the mine entrance where there is another ore bin and pneumatic winch. The mine workings were interesting with several hundred feet of drifts and a caved vertical shaft. While there is not much information available for this tungsten, molybdenum and uranium mine, I believe it was operated during the 1920's and was probably later re-worked as late as the 1970's.
Thanks to Matt and Lynn for suggesting that we visit this location.
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