Riley Pass Abandoned Uranium Mine


This is a video of the Riley Pass Abandoned Uranium Mine on the North Cave Hills Unit, Custer National Forest taken by Harold J. One Feather.

As this abandoned uranium mine is highly radioactive, please don't visit this site with any children and if you must see for yourself; take proper precautions such as using breathing filters to keep from breathing the dust and stay upwind to keep from breathing radon and other radioactive dust!

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