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Photographs of some of the abandoned mine works near Monitor Pass, Alpine County, California. The Leviathan Creek still flows orange with minerals and waste, generations later. There is a constant soup of arsenic, mercury, copper, zinc and other tasty heavy metals flowing by, as they have been for decades.


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Photographs of some of the abandoned mine works near Monitor Pass, Alpine County, California. Leviathan mine, Monitor Pass, Route 89, Morning Star Mine, Morningstar Mine, Markleeville, Alpine county, Sierra Nevada, photographs, pictures, travel, tourism, California