Looming dangers from Arizona's abandoned mines

In 2023 Arizona's mine inspector’s office secured nearly 100 abandoned mines across the state, but there is still a lot of work to be done.

[@781redrum8]

There’s a little road leading up to a unmarked mine on the north side of white tanks with a gravel runoff visible from sun valley parkway, I was going to go in this horizontal mine when i approached I smelt a strong odor of piss and I knew right then this was a mountain lions den due to the scat around the entrance

[@Kr0n1kTh3Kl0wn]

wait.

[@seamus6994]

Dang! They're trying to take all my FUN away. 😉

[@shiddykiddy]

Can a person claim an abandoned mine???

[@alecdsm]

or you could give others the opportunity to claim and improve the land.

[@robertnewman4763]

Thank you for this!

[@curtisc6768]

It is called flowable motor ....use it

[@tortugalisa4748]

The mines need to be fenced but not forgotten. A chance for miners & prospectors to work some of these mines back to life brings the old timers history back to Arizona🌟⛏️

[@user-dw1ls3rp1l]

I imagine this reporter swearing a streak as she tries to walk up a mine dump in her pumps.

[@VaeVictiss]

I live in Phoenix i know we are kinda far from some mines but id like to say we should be known as the minecraft state

[@dabstv7722]

hold up, portals?

[@-phoenix-4353]

They don’t want u in there for a reason

[@NuformAZMLO]

Portals?

[@jwbures]

If someone wants to feed their curiosity, mind your own business and let 'em. We don't need more rules or laws.

[@-phoenix-4353]

Dude said portals….

[@AmericanTeacher-USA]

Must investigate ALL of these old mines - if only to find the bodies and human bones - and solve every single murder and cold case.

[@chadhaire1711]

God place to dump a democrat

[@Jackofbladesdude]

Nothing dangerous about these mines.