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Approaching the tunnel at the Bighorn Basin Mine

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08970-shaft-800px.jpg I come around a bend and it looks like the road will end at the mine tunnel and tailings pile aheadThumbnailsAn old track leads into the Bighorn Mine tunnelI come around a bend and it looks like the road will end at the mine tunnel and tailings pile aheadThumbnailsAn old track leads into the Bighorn Mine tunnelI come around a bend and it looks like the road will end at the mine tunnel and tailings pile aheadThumbnailsAn old track leads into the Bighorn Mine tunnelI come around a bend and it looks like the road will end at the mine tunnel and tailings pile aheadThumbnailsAn old track leads into the Bighorn Mine tunnelI come around a bend and it looks like the road will end at the mine tunnel and tailings pile aheadThumbnailsAn old track leads into the Bighorn Mine tunnel

It seems that they used the tailings from the mine to construct this flat area that I'm standing on.