Old mine pictures

jackmi · Jan 7, 2018

A old mine I went to with a old car loader and a air compressor left behind.

farmerjohn · Jan 7, 2018

Interesting! What part of the country is it?

Gambles · Jan 7, 2018

And what mineral were they mining?

jackmi · Jan 7, 2018

I think they were mining copper and silver and the mine is east of Florence Az.

Russ from MN · Jan 7, 2018

Interesting! We spend the winter in Apache Junction and do a lot of hiking in the Superstitions.

Charlie M · Jan 7, 2018

Had a chance to visit a coal mine museum in PA a couple of years ago. Had to be a tough way to make a living in the old days. From what I can tell its not a picnic in the present either.

Duane WI · Jan 7, 2018

I don't know what the mine was for but I see a really large piece of yellow gold in the photo.

David G · Jan 7, 2018

Just be glad the snakes are sleeping for the winter.

coshoo · Jan 7, 2018

I'm surprised someone hasn't relieved the site of that compressor- looks like a pretty serious diesel engine on it.

Steve@Advance · Jan 7, 2018

Amazing what they leave behind!

I've been in and around a lot of mines in Colorado. How they got some of that equipment up there is a mystery. Some of it had to be assembled in place, no way it could have been hauled up there with what they had to work with!

I suspect that's why it's still there, not practical to move it.

ohiojim · Jan 7, 2018

by the looks of that one timber, some ones gat a very large set of go-nads to be walking around in there

pat sublett · Jan 7, 2018

I was stationed in FT. Huachuca AZ back in the late 50s. I think I have been in all the abandoned mines in southern part of Arizona, including the mine under the town of Tombstone. Was young energetic and dumb then.

Richard from SE AZ · Jan 8, 2018

The machine is an overshot mucker. You stand on a step on the left side and run it with two levers. One for the drive and one for the bucket. It throws the rock over the machine into a mine car hooked to the back. It is probably a 12B model Eimco. Google it. Pretty interesting. In the shape that one is in, it is probably worth about $12.000. I operated one for many years.

K Effective · Jan 8, 2018

How far away would a person have to travel to find trees large enough to cut timbers that large? I imagine having to haul every single timber, rail, machine, etc. hundreds of miles... hard to imagine the logistics of running an operation like that.

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