The Shafted Mine
by Robert Bales
Title
The Shafted Mine
Artist
Robert Bales
Medium
Photograph - Photo
Description
The Shafted Mine is one of the many abandoned mines in the Copper Mountains of the southwestern Sonoran Desert in Arizona.
The Copper Mountains is a minor north-south trending mountain range, only 8 miles long in southwestern Arizona in the southwestern Sonoran Desert.
The Copper Mountains lie east of Yuma, Arizona and east of the Yuma Desert; also east of the Gila and Tinajas Altas Mountains. It lies on an extensive north-sloping desert plain that drains into the Gila River floodplain close to its confluence and outlet into the southern Colorado River in the Lower Colorado River Valley. The Lechuguilla Desert and Coyote Wash lie west of the mountains; the Tule Desert lies east. The highest point is Coyote Peak at 2,808 feet (856 m).
The communities just north at about 10 miles in the Gila River agricultural valley, are Wellton, Noah, Roll, and Tacna, Arizona.
The Copper Mountains lie in the western portion of the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range which is used by the MCAS, the Marine Corps Air Station, Yuma; also 3 miles north of the western end of the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge.
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April 3rd, 2017
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Comments (9)
Jenny Revitz Soper
CONGRATULATIONS! It is my great pleasure to FEATURE this amazing artwork on the homepage of the FAA Group No Place Like Home, 4/18/2017! I also invite you to post it in the Features Discussion thread for posterity or any other thread that fits!
Robert Bales replied:
Thanks Jenny for the feature, congrats and the invite!! It is greatly appreciated!!
Miroslava Jurcik
Awesome find and shot !! And it would be so hard to see, great spotting !! l/f/t
Robert Bales replied:
Thanks so much for the nice comments nd I had a little help to find the mine!! Thanks for the LFT!!