AZ lost mine lead

Back in 2002 i was in Arizona driving up the Hasseimpa river bed with a buddy, looking for a lost safe washed into the river bed, in the late 1800's. While staying in the river bed and continuing up river further than fools canyon, we spotted some tailing piles not far off the 2 trac. While exploring the old diggings, with no aparent mine visable, just shallow holes in the ground, we could tell that the quartz in abundance was all extreamly mineralized, with signs of tourquoise, and much volcanic activity. The area was huge, and there was no signs of anybody working the area in a long time, and no way heavy equiptment ever entered the area. While looking around to see if there was any signs of gold, i noticed a hole about the size of a softball in the side of a small outcropping of quartz. The whole area was deep purple with minerals, and there wasn't any sign of granite around, showing how big the vein must be. On closer look the hole was a hidden enterance to a small cave, not much bigger than a man, but leading in past my line of sight. As if someone picked there way forward, with a small hand pick, strange it was. Apon removel of the rocks, while getting picked by cactus needles, i had no gloves, i could see there was about two inches of cactus needles on the floor, and they evidently have been blowing in through the small hole for a very long time, in order to build up so much.. I couldn't procede without a flashlight, or a mat, so i had to leave the area. When the mining town of Fools canyon was hit by the water, all the 100 miners were lost. This mine i found is within one half mile of Fools canyon up river, i left the opening uncovered, and there is no claim markers anywhere to be seen. What's real interesting is that on a map this mine is in the same line between the vulture mine, and Stanton/Octave mine.  Both places had extreamly high concentration of gold, and i'm sure this is in the same Gold bearing volcanic crack that fed those.. Good luck, and let me know if you find it, and what it has to offer..

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Azjake  . Did you ever find this area?

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sure would be interested in hearing further..

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wow real interesting. these are the kinda of things i like chasing down.

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As you head up the river past fools canyon, you'll see a large stone foundation on the other side of the river up on the side of the hill, and i'm not sure what that structure was. But keep going to where a two trac goes straight up for a ways, with a steep drop off on the left. Right where the trac starts to climb keep looking back to the left right before the hill is to steep, and you will see the real mineralized quartz, with the tailings piled up. The mine entrance is hidden, but i uncovered it, and wasn't able to go in because it was a crawl hole that filled in with cactus. I went looking for it a couple years later, but wasn't sucessful. It's there it's just hidden, and nobody's been there since the late 1800's..

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