Basin, Montana - Radon Health Mines
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- Address:
- Basin, MT
- Directions:
- Sunshine Health Mine is midway between Butte and Helena off I-15 Exit 160. 1/2 mi. up Galena gulch. Free Enterprise Health Mine, Boulder - in town, turn west at Second Street (at the Ace Hardware store). Go 2 miles to the top of hill, follow Free Enterprise signs.
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Old mines have become radioactive vacation havens for the aged and ill, pockmarking the landscape between Basin and Boulder. Roadsideamerica.com Report...
A stop on Roadside America's "Northwest Jitters" Hypertour. Arthritics, asthmatics, diabetics, and those with hormone imbalances travel from all over to sit in abandoned mines and soak up the therapeutic aura. Roadsideamerica.com Report...
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A half-dozen defunct gold mines south of Helena, Montana, continue to attract ailing tourists who like to bask in radioactive radon gas and drink radioactive water. Each summer, hundreds of people, many of them Amish and Mennonites, come to the radon health mines to relax and treat arthritis, lupus, asthma and other chronic cripplers.... [12/14/1997] Complete News Story
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