oldies1955 Posted August 31, 2012 Report Share Posted August 31, 2012 ABOVE PRESCOTT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeadair Posted September 1, 2012 Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 Alex, what is Senator or the Mt Union? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldies1955 Posted September 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 Alex, what is Senator or the Mt Union?Noop....It was above prescottThe town of prescott came and hauled the stamp mill out a ways back and are restoring it at the Sharlot hall museam.Tom H. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldies1955 Posted September 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 Nother hint................... Between Prescott and skull valley. On iron spings road.Really close to Highland pines.Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZNuggetBob Posted September 2, 2012 Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 copper basin, Copper Hill Mine.? AzNuggetBob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldies1955 Posted September 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 copper basin, Copper Hill Mine.? AzNuggetBobI dont know the name of the mine but it was a gold mine.You would drive out iron springs road towards skull valley.On the top of the mountain you turn left to go into Highland Pines.The first cabin in the community was the old assayers office.The mine was below it.It wasnt a very big mine as I remember. But I guess it was paying off enough to move all that machinery in there.Either that or they really suckered some easterners.I used to play on all the machinery when I was about 12 yrs old. There were snakes in it and all kinds of dangerous pointed objects, mercury from the stamp mill......but, im still alive! Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZNuggetBob Posted September 2, 2012 Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 Nope not the copper hill probably the Derby, Mine. Its right off skyline pines road on the west side. AzNuggetBob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZNuggetBob Posted September 2, 2012 Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 Oh also I found a lot of wire gold nuggets in copper basin. I think It was Phelps Dodge that purchased it to mine the copper and get the gold as by product. but its on the south side of spruce mountain. and in case your thinking about hunting it, last time I went there they had a caretaker and no hunting allowed. AzNuggetBob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldies1955 Posted September 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 Nope not the copper hill probably the Derby, Mine. Its right off skyline pines road on the west side. AzNuggetBobHoly Cow Bob... I googled it and thats the mine.Do you know anything about it?TksTom H. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Tom Posted September 2, 2012 Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 I built my family cabin about a couple of hundred yards from the mine. Tom used to play all around there and it was really dangerous at the time as the mine was an open pit with a lousy fence around it. It filled with water and that is why they stopped mining at the time, they just couldn't keep up with the flow. The mice used to build nests in the old boiler tubes and the rattleys would wait for them below. Mercury was spilled all over the place and I still can't figure just why I let Tom go there. I built there around !968 and sold the place about five years ago. Yeah, the mines around there do have care takers and they are not too sociable. There is an awful lot of iron in the rocks up there and can make some detectors really spin. We didn't have the modern stuff and it sort of cancelled us out back then. I miss the area but it was time to let go. Old Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZNuggetBob Posted September 2, 2012 Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 Tom I cant find much production history on it?. AzNuggetBob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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