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04451-aiken-mine.jpg A mountain bike rests in the cinder-rock pile near the old dump truck at Aiken Mine, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsIndeed, Aiken Mine must have been a busy place not so long agoA mountain bike rests in the cinder-rock pile near the old dump truck at Aiken Mine, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsIndeed, Aiken Mine must have been a busy place not so long agoA mountain bike rests in the cinder-rock pile near the old dump truck at Aiken Mine, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsIndeed, Aiken Mine must have been a busy place not so long agoA mountain bike rests in the cinder-rock pile near the old dump truck at Aiken Mine, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsIndeed, Aiken Mine must have been a busy place not so long agoA mountain bike rests in the cinder-rock pile near the old dump truck at Aiken Mine, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsIndeed, Aiken Mine must have been a busy place not so long ago

Aiken Mine feels like a ghost town where everyone got up and left the same day, leaving everything behind. It's easy to imagine this place 25 years ago, busy with trucks lined up, ready to take away loads of cinder rock.