Far from the posh spotlight of LA lies Dunton Hot Springs, a former mining settlement turned cowboy ghost in southwestern Colorado, which has once again been transformed into a tiny all-inclusive and all-escapist resort.

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Mining reached its apex in the 1890s when around 700 people lived at Corinna, but by 1919 the town was all but abandoned, leaving what Tasmania's Parks and Wildlife Service describes as " the only remote area historic mining settlement" in the state.

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However, both are now seriously threatened by deforestation and invasive practices, including intensive mining and logging, extensive livestock activity, water pollution, degradation of headwaters, unregulated processes of urban settlement, construction of roads, waterways and dams, drainage and diversion of rivers, burning of forests and illegal fishing and trade in wildlife.

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