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Found some pretty cool abandoned mines
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There are mines all over in parts of GMU 204. I have never crawled into any of them for fear of reducing my life expectancy but there are many of them. Also found one pig hunting in AZ that had a very long drop time when a rock was tossed in. Those are cool pics you took.
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That's the Darwin Mine.
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These are all in Chelan and Entiat areas
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Hunted for years in Moab area of Utah. Many abandoned uranium mines around there, but most were fenced with skull and cross bone signs on them. Kind of eerie when you got around them and some were dug into the middle of cliffs. Never had any desire to try to go in one.
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Found a couple. The tailings were a dead giveaway. On the vertical shaft mine the rock drop test told me to stay away. Other one was filled with water which deterred entering. Near one we found the old camp site since a resent forrest fire revealed all the old tin cans and bottles. Sure ads some entertainment to the day.
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Deer hunting on the tops above Keller ferry I found a hole cut into the rocks, just big enough for a man to get into. Did not go in as I was afraid of a snake den. Was told by the property owner that that the Chinese people used to dig mines that way. Always wondered what I could have found in there.
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Shot a decent whitetail buck on state land up on Kelly Hill (GMU 105). Made note of a bush where I last saw him. Waited a bit and then started down and went past the bush. Found a prominent blood trail and followed it a short distance until it stopped. Continued past and couldn't find any more blood. WHUT?
Returned to the last pool of blood and looked to the right. The buck was down about 15 feet in a crater like hole that looked like it was the start of a mine or at least an exploratory dig. That area has loads of old mines. In this case, if it was a mine, the deer found it first.
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August 11, 2023, 05:47:27 PM »
While taking a shortcut off of Swan Bute I ran across a vertical pit mine, it still had claim paperwork in Prince Albert cans nailed to posts. It's located due south of Swan Lake in Ferry County.
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Really cool pictures! Most of the mines I've found are either filled with water, or have been blocked off in some way (gates or cave ins)
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Found an old sluice mine once, knew the general area it was in beforehand though so that's kind of cheating. All that was left was a bunch of the semi rotted timbers but the old square nails were pretty cool. I snagged a couple nails and called it good. Fire got the site now. Always meant to go back and see if I could sniff up any more old stuff from around it.
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