Seth Johnson looks down into the mine shaft behind a makeshift memorial marking the site along the remote Cherum Peak Trail in the Cerbat Mountains Monday, Sept. 3, 2007, after two sisters fell into a 125-foot-deep abandoned mine shaft while driving their all-terrain vehicle in Chloride, Ariz. Rikki Howard, 13, died on the scene while her sister Casie Hicks, 10, was being treated for her injuries. Efforts to clean up one of the West's most enduring and dangerous legacies _ tens of thousands of abandoned hardrock mines, many of them dating to the 19th century _ are expected to get a boost from the economic stimulus package sought by President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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