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Southwest, Arizona

Chloride AZ

Cerbat silver camp

Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required
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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea potterySea pottery
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: cans.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Arizona's oldest continuously inhabited mining camp (1863), silver-lead workings dotting the Cerbat foothills above a living ghost town

Documented living ghost town (Legends of America, town chamber); mine dumps and camp scatter throughout the surrounding hills

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Open shafts and adits in the CerbatsRattlesnakes, summer heat

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