Eastern Mojave Vegetation Tom Schweich
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Eastern Mojave Vegetation | Macedonia Canyon Road - Mojave National Preserve |
| Tom Schweich |
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Macedonia Canyon Road from Wild Horse Canyon
on the East end to Kelso-Cima Road on the West end.
This is also the down hill direction.
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| Literature Cited: Other Articles: Wild Horse Canyon Road: at Macedonia Cyn Locations: Macedonia Canyon.
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Macedonia Canyon Road joins Wild Horse Canyon Road just south of where
Wild Horse Canyon Road starts to climb out of the head of Macedonia Canyon.
You can't get into Macedonia Canyon by following the wash next to Wild
Horse Canyon Road, due to fences and road closure signs.
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| GatePlease close the gate behind you. |
| Macedonia Canyon WashBe careful of rocks sticking up out of the sand.
|  Washout in Macedonia Canyon Other Articles: Field Notes: 20050530030 Locations: Macedonia Canyon. Washout in the canyon
in 2005. | |  Macedonia
Canyon | Stone CabinThe remains of several stone cabins can be found in the upper reaches of Macedonia Canyon.
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| Canyon Narrows
|  Washout in Macedonia Canyon Other Articles: Field Notes: 20050530030 Locations: Macedonia Canyon. In 2005, the road in
the canyon was washed out. |
|  Eaton's Firecracker in Macedonia Canyon. 
Eaton's Firecracker in Macedonia Canyon.
Other Articles: Field Notes: 20010527020
Penstemon eatoni in the wash of Macedonia Canyon. |
|  The Columbia
Mine … The
Columbia Mine
is a little bit off of the main road
through Macedonia Canyon. I'll leave it to your map reading
skills to find it. Don't be deterred by the big gate.
Everyone else just drives around it. You can too.
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 Chemical storage at the Columbia Mine.
Here's the chemical storage area at the
Columbia Mine.
Are these chemicals hazardous? How would you know?
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Right Turn, Out of the Wash |
|  Columbia
Mountain as seen from the Blue Rock Mine in Macedonia Canyon.
Locations: Columbia Mountain. At
the very top of Columbia Mountain is an excellent example of supergene enrichment of copper ores. The idea behind supergene enrichment goes something like this. In the beginning there was a small amount of copper mineralization in the ore vein. As the mountain eroded away, the copper minerals were dissolved and then redeposited a few feet deeper in the vein. As a result the copper vein at the surface looks to be very rich. But just a few feet below the surface there is very little copper. Someone built a road to the top of Columbia Mountain, and dug some exploratory trenches in rich copper veins right on the very top of the mountain. However as soon as they got a few feet down, the vein was not rich enough to continue digging.
| |  Blue Rock Mine. Locations: Blue Rock Mine.
I met Bill Brown, owner of the Blue Rock Mine,
one afternoon in about 1985. He told me the Blue Rock Mine was his, and that he mined "pods" of scheelite (tungsten ore) even though there was substantial copper mineralization on his property.
He also said he lived in Los Angeles, and drove out to his mine on the weekends. He kept his trailer and "jeep" at the Cima Store. | I haven't seen Bill since, the roof is torn off of his cabin and the trailer at Cima Store looks to be abandoned. |  Tortoise in Macedonia Canyon.
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| GatePlease close the gate behind you. |  Railroad
bridge over Macedonia Canyon Road.
Macedonia Canyon Road joins Kelso-Cima Road in a wash.
It immediately passes under a Union Pacific Railroad bridge.
The bridge is labeled "B-252."
Across Kelso-Cima Road is a dark green water tank and a corral.
| | Other Articles: Kelso Cima Road: at Macedonia Canyon Road | Junction
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| Literature CitedA list of all literature cited by this web site can be found in the Bibliography.
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| Burn Area Emergency Response Team. 2005. Burned Area Emergency Stabilization Plan: Hackberry Complex. Primm, Nevada: National-Interagency Burned Area Emergency Response Team, July 5, 2005. Location records referred to by this literature:
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| | Date and time this article was prepared: 5/15/2008 12:33:11 PM |