Dungeons XVIII century

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The field was discovered in 1775, from that moment she began to be used for the extraction of copper ore. Initially, exploration was completed two galleries. But, obviously, with the beginning of ore mining number of adits increased to five.
Extraction of copper ore was negligible, at 1886 it was only 115 pounds. Because of the low copper content in the ore, the mine was closed soon. It is known that in 1888 the mine in the action list is not listed.
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Who is right and not to say that there was once the mine had long been overgrown with forest and mine workings swam so that only vaguely remind myself.
Well, here we are in the mine, at the entrance reinforced lining. But she is not much saved from collapse, he had to squeeze through it crawl on her stomach.



Here and there are traces of fire - because in those days people were working by the light of a torch.



Everywhere ice and frost sparkling on the arches



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Once upon a time there was a revolting way that connects with other galleries, but he firmly swam long ice



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Near another vent the rebels, but also iced



A small glacier underneath



Further tunnel goes into greater production, mounted a huge tree trunks.



To scale



Fixing a solid, made to last.



While one part of it collapsed, apparently because of the high humidity and the absence of any ventilation.



On the left is a little out space rock pillar and left.
Down can come down to a small crosscuts



Going further we see another camera - for the issue of ore from the lower horizons of the slope.



Unfortunately slope filled waste rock. Although it is possible that it was only a preparatory development.



View from the slope



The roof hammered loop, by means of which raised scraper slope of



And here is the scraper, or rather what was left of it - is a small sled to transport the ore by hand.



Sometimes underfoot it meets the boardwalk for maximum scraper.
In production areas



Pretty complex conjugation in three directions - in a small field drift, recessed chamber and bias



A flock of bats near the garnet rock in a field drift



On the surface it's just a stick, but in fact it is a torch. It wound a rag impregnated with a combustible mixture, and in this way produce covered



Cleaning of the chamber securely fixed racks



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There still remained a jumper firmly driven into the timber



In the space of showers and fresh, you can walk in a maze



On both sides it was passed up two small generating



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To move in these mines are used stairs - to cobble together two straps cut into logs with their ledges



Border clearing space fixed cog



The long exploration drift



Everywhere black powder fouling from

Generally such historic sites bring a lot of great memories, and do not catch up with a rather monotonous modern workings.



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