Normally I would have edited the sign out of the photo. But this 500-year-old silver and vitriol mine calls itself proudly: a visitors’ mine.
FOWC with Fandango: Visit
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No Coffee and Cake on this Visit
Normally I would have edited the sign out of the photo. But this 500-year-old silver and vitriol mine calls itself proudly: a visitors’ mine.
FOWC with Fandango: Visit
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interesting visit?
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It’s been a few years but what I remember, yes, it was interesting. Very wet and damp and water dripping and dark and jostling to get in front so one could understand what the guide was saying.
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Mines are usually wet and drippy, being underground!
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The only other mine I’ve visited was the Buffelsfontein mine in South Africa. Not too wet and definitely NOT cold. The mine is close to 3km deep and I don’t remember how deep we went (more than a kilometre, I seem to remember). And it is an awe-inspiring feelling that you have 1km of rocks above your head. It wasn’t a visitors’ mine but a working gold mine. It was also one of the most racist experiences I’ve ever had in my life, incidentally not from any of the miners working there but from another visitor in our group (I’m ashamed to say that he was German, too, although one that left Germany in the late 1940s).
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