What an awesome adventure! The photos are amazing. You are really brave going into those old mines. Have you ever been to the Whipple Mountains near Lake Havasu? There are a lot of old copper mines in the area. I don't think that I would venture in any of them though!
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It was WAY awesome! I really love this kinda stuff. I swear I should have been alive during the gold rush. lol. I've never been to the Whipple mountains, but there are plenty of mines that I've found that I would never go in! These ones here were all pretty solid hard rock mines so I wasn't to worried. It's those placer mines that are super sketchy.
I think that the mines here were pretty much abandoned in a hurry when they built Parker Dam and made the lake. The miners lost their easy way to ship the ore off and get their supplies in. They left their burros behind and their descendants are still roaming free in the mountains.
Here's an entrance that's right on the road to the campground. I haven't heard of anyone exploring it.