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Winnekta Mill

Winnekta Mill

It is rare to find a Chilean mill out in the wild, not to mention one that is ten feet in diameter! The original 10-stamp mill was built on the site sometime before 1910. The mine was already doing well by then and making shipments to the Anaconda smelter in

DE Mine and Cave

DE Mine and Cave

Out in central Nevada, we found a small cave inside of a larger, abandoned mine. The miners probably broke into the cave in the 1880s or thereabouts. Seeing a barrel set in the mine to catch dripping water was interesting. I’m guessing the miners were using it to collect

Misty Mountain Mine

Misty Mountain Mine

Lava River Cave

Lava River Cave

In late spring 2015, we took a trip out to Flagstaff seeking cooler temperatures. One of the places we stopped at was the Lava River Cave. Formed in the Pleistocene, roughly 675,000 years ago, this 0.75-mile-long lava tube is remarkable for its length and tall ceilings; at some

Chalcedony Cabin

Chalcedony Cabin

On a scorching late spring day in 2015, we journeyed out to a lonely cabin in the central heart of the Mojave Desert. This is a barren landscape of sand and lava. Any roads that once traversed this wasteland were wiped out by monsoonal thunderstorms long ago. Interestingly, there are

Silver Divide Mine

Silver Divide Mine

I couldn’t find any information about this little mine, and I was surprised by what was left when I hiked up to it. It is an interesting little spot in Western Nevada. The place consists of a ruined workshop-cabin combination next to a short adit. I need to make

Silver Canyon Cabin

Silver Canyon Cabin

In the summer of 2014, at the end of an exploration trip in the White Mountains of eastern California, we decided to take a little side trip to a cabin I had heard about. From what scarce history I could find on the place, there didn’t seem to be