Administrators Eric Posted September 13, 2022 Administrators Share Posted September 13, 2022 The Mt Con mine, in Butte, Montana. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Batesmotel Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 What ore? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted September 13, 2022 Author Administrators Share Posted September 13, 2022 5 minutes ago, Batesmotel said: What ore? The first one? Copper, gold, silver and zinc mostly. Butte Montana is sitting on some rich deposits. There are mining operations all throughout that region. In the Idaho panhandle, there used to be a hell of a lot of silver mining. Those mines transitioned to other metals when the silver played out. I've been down inside the Star-Phoenix Mine, in the mountains northeast of Wallace, ID, near the Montana border. It is a very different world down there. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted September 13, 2022 Author Administrators Share Posted September 13, 2022 I wonder if the wood framing is just there for moral support. It doesn't seem like it would do much, if the roof came down. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted September 13, 2022 Author Administrators Share Posted September 13, 2022 This is the Sunshine Mine, near Kellog, ID. In 1972, 91 miners lost their lives due to smoke inhalation, as a result of an underground fire. I used to drive by the monument to them every day on my way to work, when I lived up their. The monument is along the north side of I-90, between Wallace (where I lived) and Kellog, ID. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Administrators Eric Posted September 13, 2022 Author Administrators Share Posted September 13, 2022 Here you can see a tired dump truck relaxing after a hard day's work, while the nice doser makes him a pillow to rest his head. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Administrators Eric Posted September 13, 2022 Author Administrators Share Posted September 13, 2022 One of the most unusual mining sites in the world is the Australian town of Coober Pedy. The town is the site of one of the largest opal mines in the world. It lies in a very hot region and to escape the heat, something like 85% of the town exists in old areas of the mine. As a point of interest, Coober Pedy was the town where Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome was filmed. https://www.cooberpedy.com/ 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 My grandfather established several silver mines in SW Wa in the early 1920's along the Coweeman River. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 I wonder if, over the years, they haven’t mined more gold from tourists’ pockets than they did from underground. Interesting that the commemorative “coin” for a gold mine was struck in silver. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted September 13, 2022 Author Administrators Share Posted September 13, 2022 The Wieliczka Salt Mine, near Krakow, Poland. I would really love to go visit this place. It's hard to believe that this is underground, in a 700-year-old salt mine. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Borg warner Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 My grandfather worked in a mine most of his life beginning in the 1930's until he retired in 1960. My dad worked there, too, when he was young but later became an aeronautical engineer. It was the McIntyre mine in Northern Ontario that was 4.250 feet deep and from 1912 to 1988 they milled 37,529,691 tons of ore, producing 10,745,361 ounces of gold. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McIntyre_Mines 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borg warner Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 1 hour ago, railfancwb said: I wonder if, over the years, they haven’t mined more gold from tourists’ pockets than they did from underground. Interesting that the commemorative “coin” for a gold mine was struck in silver. I've been in that mine. My parents use to live in Lake George Colorado. Pikes Peak is also not far from there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 Copper deposits under the Kennecott mine. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 4 hours ago, Eric said: Think about building and carving all that with just a candle or oil lamp for light. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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