I’m surprised all these thousands of open, abandoned mines have been ignored for so many decades. Each one presents a safety hazzard, as illustrated here.
Is this part of Arizona just so spacious that no one really cares about the area not being brought under control?
If that was in my state of California, real estate assessors would be thinking about building something, or at least buying up the land. Even the EPA must not care about it.
Is this part of Arizona just so spacious that no one really cares about the area not being brought under control?
Has more to do with Freedom and your right to challenge Darwin.
I live and work in a part of New Mexico that has been mined since the 1600’s. You learn what to look out for, and to be careful.
There’s no water, so why would developers give a damn?
re: “I’m surprised all these thousands of open, abandoned mines have been ignored for so many decades. “
The BLM or BOM (Whomever) are working to plug those adits, but, there areas so many in some area and they don’t catch them all. That, ans sometimes the stopes are worked clear-through to ‘daylight’ at the top of the mine.
There are a number of mine explorers on Youtube, it’s an education viewing their explorations ...