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Danger! Hazardous mine

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00075-hazardous-mine-800px.jpg Above the piles of tailings at the Butcher Knife MineThumbnailsJust above the lower mine at Butcher Knife Canyon is another big hole in the groundAbove the piles of tailings at the Butcher Knife MineThumbnailsJust above the lower mine at Butcher Knife Canyon is another big hole in the groundAbove the piles of tailings at the Butcher Knife MineThumbnailsJust above the lower mine at Butcher Knife Canyon is another big hole in the groundAbove the piles of tailings at the Butcher Knife MineThumbnailsJust above the lower mine at Butcher Knife Canyon is another big hole in the groundAbove the piles of tailings at the Butcher Knife MineThumbnailsJust above the lower mine at Butcher Knife Canyon is another big hole in the ground

A wire fence cordons off the lower mine shaft at the Butcher Knife Mine, decorated, of course, by more orange desert-mallow flowers.