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BLM closes abandoned mines with stimulus money 
Since April, ten mines in Mohave County have been fenced off using iron gates or covered by bat-friendly cupolas. Steel-grated cupolas are designed to allow bats to escape the mine shaft but keep people from falling in.
The Bureau of Land Management has about $102,000 in stimulus funding passed by Congress in 2009, to close off the mines, BLM spokesman Mike Brown said. One of the projects is the Great West gold mine, about 35 miles northeast of Kingman, which was mined in the early 20th century and abandoned in the 1930s. Vertical shafts reach up to 200 feet deep. The cost to cover the Great West Mine is about $18,000. Two mines are near Bullhead City, the San Diego and Thumb Butte mines. Two more mines, the Gold Hill and Times Gulch mines, are in the Oatman area. The other five mines are the Fire Mountain Mine about 40 miles north of Kingman, the Porter Mine about 36 miles northwest of Kingman, the Times Vein at Mary Nevada and the Gigi Girl mines, Brown said. These mines are very dangerous. About half of the mines are vertical shafts and about half are horizontal tunnels with some vertical shafts. The abandoned mines are a threat to off-road and all-terrain vehicle riders and curious people. In 2007, a 13-year-old girl from Chloride was killed when she and the ATV she was riding fell into the 125-foot deep Brighter Days Mine. The girl’s sister was also injured. The Arizona Mine Inspector estimates there are several thousand abandoned mines around the state. A 500-foot vertical mine near Phoenix was securely fenced off with barbed wire but someone still managed to break in and go down into the mine using a fire hose. Anyone curious enough to enter a mine shaft should know that dangerous animals and reptiles live in the mines. Some mines contain poisonous gases. Erosion over decades sometimes causes loose walls and floors and could cave in and you could be trapped with no means of communication with others. 
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