2021-02-22, 09:04 PM
(2020-11-08, 09:00 AM)Randy Wrote: They really moved a lot of dirt to make that huge hole.
Yup, heaps and heaps of rocks and dirt. The clean up job is actually quite impressive with very little unsightly and distracting debris remaining. It's hard to see in the video but on the east end of the pt about half way down is a large tunnel that looks big enough to drive one of those huge dump trucks into. I wonder if it was an exit, a maintenance, an exploratory tunnel, or what. Accessing it would be most difficult and may require some ropes. I wish somebody would survey the tunnel and post about it. It sure won't be me, too scary with steep unstable terraces.
I believe the mine was deeded to Death Valley National Park but I could be wrong. There are some real details about the mine here:
https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/show-mrds.p...d=10023438
https://www.mindat.org/loc-5571.html
Life begins in Death Valley