2024年6月12日 · Check out the full listing of abandoned mines throughout Arizona. Learn about the history of each mine, and explore them through photographs and first hand accounts.

In September of 2007, an all night search ended tragically Sunday morning near Chloride, a small town in northwest Arizona, after two girls, one 13-year-old and one 10-year-old, fell into an abandoned mine shaft.

The estimate for Arizona is over 200,000 abandoned mine features with an estimated 20,000 being located within the National System of Public Lands (NSPL). Currently the BLM has documented about 10,000 features in the Abandoned Mine and …

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Mines A – Z Mine Name County Region (Mining District) Page Link 79 Mine Gila Dripping Springs Mountains (Banner District) View Mine Anderson Mill Yavapai Northeast Wickenburg Mountains (White Picacho District) View Mine April Fools Mine Maricopa Southern Wickenburg Area (Vulture District) View Mine Black Hawk Mine Maricopa Southern …

The Tucson Mountains has over 200 prospector pits, abandoned mines and, numerous mining camps scattered throughout its range. Many of the trails in the Saguaro National Park and Tucson Mountain Park were once mining roads.

Since the Mining Law of 1872, over a million mining claims have been filed in Arizona. Arizona State Mine Inspector's Office estimates that roughly 10% may have had actual mining conducted on them leading us to set a number of approximately 100,000 abandoned mine openings within the …

Protecting the Lives of Arizona Miners. The earliest indication of mining in Arizona may be as old as 1000 BC when inhabitants of the area were already using turquoise, coal, clay and many minerals in their daily life.

This is a partial list of ghost towns in Arizona in the United States. Most ghost towns in Arizona are former mining boomtowns that were abandoned when the mines closed. Those not set up as mining camps often became mills or supply points supporting nearby mining operations.

2018年12月10日 · In 1982, 15-year-old John Borrowdale died while exploring an abandoned mine in Arizona he found while hunting with a friend. In the darkness inside, he missed an 850-foot vertical shaft inside the main tunnel and fell to his death, according to records from the Arizona State Mine Inspector.