Ames Camp
Roy Ames located some fluorspar claims in the hills above this little camp in 1941, but it doesn’t appear that he produced much, if any, fluorite. I suspect some of the buildings were already here by that time, but he probably improved them. Roy passed away in 1966 and
Kay Cooper Mine
Joshua Tree Car Wash
Our National Parks aren’t known for their collections of old junked cars, but Joshua Tree has one.
I heard there were a few wrecked cars in the vast expanse of the Pinto Basin, but I didn’t know how many, what to expect, or even if they were really
Silver Lake and Iowa Mines
This was a really fun place to visit for me and one I’ve been trying to get to for some time. Weather makes it hard to get to most of the year, and you have to climb up to the mining camp at 12,200 ft elevation.
A few
Big Eye Mine
Winter is a great time to be in the southern deserts of Arizona, and this time, we had our sights set on the Big Eye Mine down at the south end of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge and the Castle Dome Mountains.
History
A. K. Ketcherside of Yuma discovered the
