A Distant Gold Mine by UVDan

Photography • Landscape • posted on May 25, 2013

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Description

Here is a shot of an open strip gold mine that is adjacent to the Apache Trail. This is a local road that traverses between tourist destinations. There are still several mines operating on both sides of the road as you drive into the Sonoran Desert outside of Apache Junction, Arizona.

Comments (20)

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Steeleyes101

5:52PM | Sat, 25 May 2013

Nice and there is a sense of movement in this piece, or maybe my minds eye wants to see heatwaves Excellent capture once again

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Brycer3d

6:38PM | Sat, 25 May 2013

Soooooooooooooooooooo beautiful shot ! I love it !

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Richardphotos

7:12PM | Sat, 25 May 2013

the trouble with those mines are all the pollutants left behind beautiful desert-scape

ronmolina

7:33PM | Sat, 25 May 2013

That's in the middle of nowhere!

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jocko500

7:58PM | Sat, 25 May 2013

wonderful looking

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starship64

10:29PM | Sat, 25 May 2013

Great shot. It's fascinating the things you can find out in the desert.

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UVDan

11:35PM | Sat, 25 May 2013

Thanks everyone. ronmolina it is only a couple miles out of town on a busily traveled road.

whaleman

1:29AM | Sun, 26 May 2013

Very nice shot and in zoom you can more clearly see all the saguero cacti, nice!

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flavia49

9:18AM | Sun, 26 May 2013

very nice shot

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LBJ2

9:34AM | Sun, 26 May 2013

Cool capture and motif, Dan. An interesting piece of history to this place.

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Cyve

1:52PM | Sun, 26 May 2013

Wonderful capture / picture !

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UVDan

3:05PM | Sun, 26 May 2013

Thanks folks.

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Rhanagaz

8:24AM | Mon, 27 May 2013

Great view!! :o)

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UVDan

8:23PM | Tue, 28 May 2013

Thanks.

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tofi

8:15PM | Thu, 30 May 2013

A real treat to look at, Dan! This is just fabulous! I can only imagine how sacred and special this place is and how much I would like to walk these lands! Excellent capture of this!

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UVDan

9:25PM | Thu, 30 May 2013

Thanks.

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