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Apache Tears cave

Postby sherae86 » May 07 2007 10:11 am

Hello, everybody!! I was told when I was a little kid we use to go to this cave in superior, and pick up apache tears. I was just wondering if anybody can help me. I would like to go back there again, just to see the place that I hardly remember. I remember going rock hunting all the time and I do remember the apache tears. We stopped at the worlds smallest museum in superior, and there was the picture of the cave. I don't remember it. But I'd sure like to go see it. If it's still there. Could anybody out there help me out. If so thank you.
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Re: Apache Tears cave

Postby Al_HikesAZ » May 07 2007 11:13 am

sherae86 wrote:Hello, everybody!! I was told when I was a little kid we use to go to this cave in superior, and pick up apache tears. I was just wondering if anybody can help me. I would like to go back there again, just to see the place that I hardly remember. I remember going rock hunting all the time and I do remember the apache tears. We stopped at the worlds smallest museum in superior, and there was the picture of the cave. I don't remember it. But I'd sure like to go see it. If it's still there. Could anybody out there help me out. If so thank you.
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Check out my Arnett Creek info. You only have to go 2-3 miles to get to & from the mine. Just east of Boyce Thompson Arboretum and south of the road. You go past the foundations of old Pinal City and curve around. The Apache Tears aren't really in the cave, they are just east of the cave. Look at my GPS map where the loop crosses over itself at Lat: 33.269° Lon: -111.1341°
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Re: Apache Tears cave

Postby tealnrose » Oct 26 2010 4:55 pm

we went to globe to the caves where the apache tears were IN A CAVE they gave us a coffee can and a pick to chip them out of the walls of THE CAVE...I STILL have a can of them
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Re: Apache Tears cave

Postby SkyIslander13 » Oct 26 2010 9:43 pm

I remember going to this "cave" on a field trip in grade school. We were givin a very small bucket & pick and then led to an alcove to pick the tears out of the mountain. I remember we were not finding many so the person running the little store scraped the wall with a backhoe exposing hundreds and we all filled our buckets.
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Re: Apache Tears cave

Postby joe bartels » Oct 26 2010 10:37 pm

Wow some neat childhood memories. Sounds like a couple different areas. Field trips rock, bet most can remember those over quadratic equations. Yet I think the amazing thing is that Alan's 2007 link still works to the old static map :o
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Re: Apache Tears cave

Postby Al_HikesAZ » Oct 26 2010 11:28 pm

joe bartels wrote:. . . Yet I think the amazing thing is that Alan's 2007 link still works to the old static map :o

I like to call stuff like that Retro. My daughter says "Dad that's not retro, that's ghetto!!". Seems like only yesterday you were figuring out how to make that newfangled GPS stuff work. :y:
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