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| | | Re: Is UE Dead? < Reply # 20 on 1/22/2024 1:04 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Abby Normal For the abandoned mine exploring community, the future is bleak. The federal government is funding programs in every state government to gate ALL non-operating mines. While I agree that mine safety is important, the danger is blown way out of proportion. I've read so many news articles recently bleating on and on about how dangerous they are, pointing to a small handful of incidents over the last few years. They dramatically tell about how danger lurks at every turn, and that you will certainly be killed if you even think about going underground. At the beginning of the year, there were three small plane crashes that killed eight persons, ALL IN ONE DAY. That's more deaths than the last 20 years of mine deaths. Yet the government is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to gate every mine. Recently a friend of mine who has a valid claim showed up at his mine to do a bit of prospecting, only to find it gated off. Last I'm aware of, he still can't gain access to his claim. Apologies for the rant. I agree with Mookster, there are a lot of locations out there. Without trying to preach, hard work leads to great results. A friend of mine recently got down into the most amazing mine. Dynamite boxes stacked up in a pile (absolutely unheard of now days), ore cars scattered about, the whole deal. But it was a serious effort to reach it with approx 400 feet of rope-work to access it. It's physically and mentally challenging to undertake these kinds of explores, but the results can be worth it. Abby Normal
| Great take and great point Abby!
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