South Lake Mine Traditional Cache
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years ago, this mine adit had a metal door leading into it. People used to cut the lock off to get into it. When I first found this site, the door was open. It was early spring, and the tunnel was filled with ice. My brother and I came back in the summer with helmets and flashlights to do a little exploring, but someone relocked it. Now there is a concrete wall. Still kind of cool...
An underground copper mine consisting of two shafts and one adit. The Aztec Mining Co. organized in 1852, reorganized in 1863, sold in 1871, then reorganized in 1880. The mine continued work throughout this period of reorganization, but finally closed in 1882 producing approx. 686,000 lbs. of refined copper. In 1909, mine was sold and reorganized as the South Lake Mining Co. The company worked the mine from 1912 to 1918, when production ceased and the mine was abandoned. The South Lake Mine produced approx. 1 million lbs. of refined copper in just 4 years of operation.
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