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Mine Exploring

Unnamed Mine

Bomboy Mine & Roblas Canyon

2015-10-29 Hiking, Mine Exploring 0

Dinner with my Dad tonight, and did not think I could get a decent hike in up north, and still make it back in time. […]

This beautiful chip was too thin & brittle to transport.

Copper Creek Mine Hunting

2015-08-21 Hiking, Mine Exploring 0

Headed down to the FR 73 / Copper Creek area with prescottstyle to followup on a previous adit discovery. Last time we had actually hiked […]

Camp Bird Mine shack.

Camp Bird Mine

2015-07-16 Hiking, Mine Exploring 0

Camp Bird Mine is a gold, silver & lead complex, but that is all I could find out about it. My second of several currently […]

Paul checking out some upper adits.

Copper Creek Mine Hunting

2015-07-03 Hiking, Mine Exploring 0

I’ve had it on my list for nearly two years to check out some mines near Copper Creek. Other than the Climax Mine, everything else […]

Whoever Paxton was, he had a great view!

Paxton Place Mine

2015-05-22 Hiking, Mine Exploring 0

I couldn’t find any info on the internet — not even on mindat.org! — for the Paxton Place Mine. Given what was mined at Camp […]

Chrysocolla with botryoidal formation, featuring malachite and azurite.

Copper Basin Mineral Hunt

2015-04-17 Hiking, Mine Exploring 0

I figured it was about time to start acclimating to higher elevations, as I won’t too many more hikes in the Valley until November. prescottstyle […]

Smelter #2

Swansea Ghost Town

2015-01-14 Ghost Town, Hiking, Mine Exploring 0

Seven strangers coming soon, While seven thousand sleep, Silhouettes against the moon, Like wolves to kill the sheep. I’ve had this one on my list […]

Looking through the arch at its shadow, and the hole's non-shadow.

Alamo Lake Arch

2015-01-03 Hiking, Mine Exploring 0

It was 27°, at 8:00 a.m., when we made our traditional stop at the Wickenburg Shell station. I hoped to have better luck with the […]

The Gibson Mine mill, in Bellevue, AZ.

Bellevue Ghost Town / Gibson Mine

2014-01-22 Hiking, Mine Exploring 0

Continuing my run of Superior-Miami-Globe area hikes, and wanting to start checking out some ghost towns, I hit on the idea of Bellevue. I could […]

Prescottstyle pointing out a likely route down to Board Creek.

Board Creek Loop

2013-11-07 Hiking, Mine Exploring 0

Met up with Paul (Prescottstyle) at Bistro St. Michael’s on the northwest corner of Courthouse Square at 0730. I had coffee and a yogurt parfait. […]

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Recent Posts

  • Enjoying some quality hiking food at the junction of Alder Canyon and West Fork Alder Canyon.

    Finishing Up Alder Canyon

    2026-07-29 Hiking 0
  • Mount Bigelow, viewed from Kellogg Mountain Trail #45. That boulder is where Mount Bigelow Trail splits.

    San Pedro Vista to Mount Bigelow

    2026-07-21 Hiking 0
  • Alder Lake was bone dry. On current satellite view it has water.

    Alder Canyon

    2026-07-15 Hiking 0
  • This friendly fella stopping by to say "Hello" at the coneflower patch on FR 139C was the highlight of my day.

    Middle Barbershop Bail

    2026-07-08 Hiking 0
  • The Stott, Scott & Wilson cemetery in Hangmans Draw reminded me of Davey Gowan's grave in the Mazatzal Mountains. Note the "Aug 4 1888" dates of death are incorrect: The three were lynched a week later.

    Stott Canyon – Hangmans Draw

    2026-07-01 Cemetery, Hiking 0

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