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Outside the adit exit
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First light for 2 hours
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I loves it down the mine I do!
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Amazing green copper staining
from the copper that leaches out
of the rock
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As we made our way along the
adit you could feel the air on
your face and hear the sea
pounding ...
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to come....
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Interesting minerals
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Old tunnels
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These rusty looking globules are
seepage of iron from the rock
over many years, feel like jelly
!
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View along the adit, probably
18th Century, the distinctive
shape is due to the miners ...
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Interesting rocks
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Rusty machinery
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Rusty machinery
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Quartz (white rock) and the
sparkly black is siderite (iron
mineral)
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Part of the pump chamber, the
walls were whitewashed to
increase the amount of light in
the area
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The electric switch gear in the
pump chamber
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Cross-cut
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Things left underground
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Water droplets
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The cross cut from Victory Shaft
to the Adit, the main pipe in
the picture brought fresh water
up ...
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This cart is called a dandy,
that used to run along the rail
tracks, pushed by hand
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The tunnel walls are coloured by
the minerals seeping from the
rock, in places water droplets
have ...
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Tunnels that go ....?
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Claire underground...finally!
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All along the tunnel there are
examples dating back to the 17th
Centuary of where other men ...
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With just the light from our
head lamps, lamps that 19 years
ago were used by the miners
working ...
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Looking down on Matt on the ladder below
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Going down Victory Mine
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GM-.08_10_15-099
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Looking down the Shaft, the
walls are running with water,
all the way down were old rusty
pipes that ...
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Daylight quickly receded as we
climbed down the 18 ladders to
the third level with only the
light ...
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