And this was the cool stuff worth seeing...some really neat mining operations from back in the day. These guys knew how to pick a spot to setup.
Local stone and much muscle went into putting this place together. Impressive.
Iron rods through the walls with cool nuts on the ends to hold the smelter building together.
And you could still see lots of melted slag on the walls.
Not sure where the bricks were made but the arch work was nice and it has held up to the test of time.
I hiked up the wash to check out the spring where the water for this operation came from. Pretty view back to the ruins. Of course the guys who built all this were not about the scenery. Just getting the ore crushed, smelted and into a form that resulted in money in the bank.
This was a silver operation if I remember right, one of the bazillion mines in the desert southwest and nice to not find one with graffiti or trash everywhere.
