Finding Something Unexpected in an Unnamed Prospect (Abandoned Mine) Near Hillsboro, New Mexico
Finding Something Unexpected in an Unnamed Prospect (Abandoned Mine) Near Hillsboro, New Mexico
Ending our adventure in a mining district near Hillsboro, New Mexico, we explore an unsuspected surprise. I knew of an adit (mine entrance) just above Highway 152 heading into Hillsboro, but could find no history of it on the USGS reports. I assumed it to be a small prospect that probably didn’t go very far into the mountain, but this mine was not the case. A few hundred feet into the workings, we observed brilliant colors of yellow, orange, and turquoise lining the back and ribs of the drift. The turquoise looks to be chrysocolla or another copper-based ore, and the yellow seemed to be some sulfur-based sticky clay at the time. An afterthought also might have been uranium, but I have no idea. If anyone knows, please enlighten me in the comments!
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I’ve often wondered what was in there. Thanks for showing me! By the way, there are more in that area. There is a much bigger one not far from there. If you do a little more exploring you’d be surprised what you might find. I won’t go in to them that far. You’re crazy for doing it but I’m glad you are so I can live vicariously!😁👍🏻
I’m going to be in the area soon and would love to check out this site. Would you mind giving me some directions?
I’ve got a mine adit about 2 miles from where I live outside of Gallup NM. It’s just one of a bunch of abandoned uranium mines in my neighborhood. I live across from the old United Nuclear disaster site.
Have you found out the name of it it on “The Diggings”
Horse at mark zero.
Your thumbnail …see the horse behind you? Look at the entire rock in the view area, it’s the head and neck of a giant horse.
Curious if this in just above and north of 152, is the "S curves" before dropping down into Hillsboro ) my mother lives there). I’ve hiked almost every inch of the area but didn’t enter all of the adits. BTW… if you haven’t hiked the nearby "Box" you’ll want to be sure to do that. Thanks for the video!
What mine is this? I’ll pay you to claim it for me 😉
You need a oxygen meter if you’re gonna go deep into mines