Mine Beams

Collapsing wooden-timbered portal.

The black-blue patch front and center is bat guano.

There was a lot more inside. No bats though.

Another portal being reclaimed by the mountain.

A huge interior stope supported by this sturdy column.

Timber jumble and more bat guano.

Vertical air shaft with crossbeams.

Mines in the Oracle District (Pinal County)

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Fluorescent Minerals

Calcite with lead and manganese. (Pinal County)

The bright blue is scheelite, often associated with tungsten. (Pinal County)

(Pinal County)

This is how the rocks appear under white light.

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Bloom Time

Prickly pear cactus blossoms (Opuntia basilaris)

UV Scorpion

Arizona bark scorpion (Centruroides scupturatus)

Certain proteins in the exoskeleton react to ultraviolet light, but

what purpose this might serve for the scorpion remains a mystery.

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Crystals

Mammoth District (Pinal County)

Mammoth District (Pinal County)

A pair of Japan Law twin crystal formations.

Bunker Hill District (Pinal County)

Bat Gate

Security measure just inside the partially collapsed portal of a mine.

Bats may pass, humans may not. Someone will tunnel around it eventually.