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You have to be insane to work in a 1000 ft. below ground mine, or have balls of granite. The machines they use to move rock and drill rock are all diesel powered, so fumes are high. It is pitch black down there. There are over 2500 miles of mines in these mountains. You could use the mines to travel from one mining town to the next, it's all connected. This mine has 7 layers of mines. Dangerous! In the next town over "Victor" there was once a man by the name of Jack Dempsey (aka, one of the most famous boxers ever), he tried to get a job here and couldn't make the cut, he couldn't hang. The guys that do make the cut, they say, have a 14" neck. I still say you have to be crazy. This mine has stopped drilling. They say the new gold is in digital electronics.
5 comments:
Amazing stuff! You really do have to be mental to WANT to do that sort of work.
You are gonna have to take us there next visit. Love the antique machinery.
Were you guys riding on a mine cart? That looks like fun to visit, but I'm with Dixie: I wouldn't like it all day every day. It makes me think of Zoolander when he says he has the black lung after being in a mine for one day!
It is a mine cart/train we were riding on. It was tres Geologically Educational.
That is awesome.
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