Exploring an Abandoned Copper Mill in the Desert

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Strange things can be found in Google Earth satellite imagery. For the past several years I've been aware of an abandoned site out in the desert that defied explanation. I located the site while perusing Google Earth satellite imagery. Was it an abandoned mine? Was it some kind of mill? Or was it something else altogether? I finally made the trek out to the site to see what was there. From the looks of things, it turned out to be an abandoned mill. I found a lot of copper ore laying all over the place, so maybe copper was processed here from nearby copper mines. There was a big copper mine not too far away that has an 1800-foot vertical shaft, so maybe the ore from that mine was processed at this facility. I was unable to find any information about this mill site -- who owned it, what mines actually used it, and when it was built and subsequently abandoned.

UPDATE: This mill site was built in the 1970's by the Bristlecone Copper Company. It was a smelter that processed a few hundred tons of copper ore recovered from the nearby copper mines. It was abandoned in 1977.

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