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Clayton Mine

Clayton Mine

The Clayton Mine has something you rarely find at abandoned mines: a mill with nearly everything still inside. The coal-powered boiler still has coal in the bin. The massive diesel generator, the compressor, the ball mill, the flotation tanks, and vacuum filters are all still in place, as if

Crescent Peak Arrastra

Crescent Peak Arrastra

I visited a fairly modern arrastra in Southern Nevada in 2019. It is mostly intact, with the drag stones still in place. That is a rare find! The district was worked prehistorically for turquoise, but there are some small gold deposits here. A shallow shaft and other prospects are behind

Super Cave Pictographs

Super Cave Pictographs

This sandstone rock shelter in southern Nevada has an interesting assortment of pictographs. Native American Southern Paiute and Mohave made their homes here, and either could have made these markings. The site itself looks like it could have been a small encampment above a wash. I explored a few different

Brooklyn Mine (Boulder Creek District)

Brooklyn Mine (Boulder Creek District)

I couldn’t find much history on this spot, only that it was worked on in 1907 for silver, lead, zinc, and some copper. Reportedly, it was an underground hydraulic operation to wash ore out of the vein. That must have been something to see. On the surface, you can

Paiute Lava Cave Pictographs

Paiute Lava Cave Pictographs

A set of Virgin Anasazi pictographs is inside a collapsed lava tube in the Arizona Strip. They believed that caves were the entrance to the spirit world. This is a sacred place. The pictographs are protected from the elements by the cave ceiling, and as such, they are particularly vibrant.

"Stanley" Mine

"Stanley" Mine

I've been asked not to disclose this mine's name or location. This silver mine, high in the mountains of Central Idaho, was a really fun one to explore. It’s a very wet mine, but we found a few ore cars and a flooded shaft station

Keystone Signpost Petroglyphs

Keystone Signpost Petroglyphs

This lone petroglyph boulder is way out in a wash deep into the Joshua Tree wilderness. We suspect it served as a signpost for Indians to find other sites which aren’t too far away. The 'key' symbols are a very interesting element in this panel. No directions