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Mine exploration is a sport where people visit abandoned mines (and sometimes working mines) to explore, document, and to take photographs. Like Urban Exploration the ethos is to 'leave only footprints, take only pictures'. Mine explorers use a similar type of equipment as cavers e.g. helmet, head lamp, Wellington boots and sometimes an over-suit or boiler suit. This article is about mineral extraction. ...
Exploration is the act of searching or traveling for the purpose of discovery, e. ...
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This article is about mineral extraction. ...
Exploration is the act of searching or traveling for the purpose of discovery, e. ...
An urban explorer stands near the outfall of a muffin shaped brick and concrete storm drain, under Saint Paul, Minnesota. ...
Ethos (ἦθος) (plurals: ethe, ethea) is a Greek word originally meaning the place of living that can be translated into English in different ways. ...
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A pair of Wellington boots The Wellington boot, also known as a welly, a wellie, or a gumboot, is a type of boot based upon Hessian boots worn and popularised by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington and fashionable among the British aristocracy in the early 19th century. ...
Mine exploring usually involves less crawling and more walking than caving. Like caving, access to mines may require Single Rope Technique, for example if a vertical shaft is the only entrance. SRT may also be used inside the mine, for example if the original links between different levels are inaccessible. Similarly, some traverses and slopes may be roped for safety, particularly if organised groups are to be taken into the mine. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (600x800, 153 KB) Ascending in a slate mine Photograph by srl - www. ...
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Single Rope Technique (SRT) is a method (or rather set of methods) used in caving and potholing to descend and ascend vertical drops (pitches). SRT is also used in roped access for building maintenance. ...
Mine explorers visit abandoned mines and old workings sometimes trespassing but never to cause damage, they are more interested in the industrial archaeology. This article is about mineral extraction. ...
See also explorations, sea explorers, astronaut, conquistador, travelogue, the History of Science and Technology and Biography. ...
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In law, trespass can be: the criminal act of going into somebody else’s land or property without permission; it is also a civil law tort that may be a valid cause of action to seek judicial relief and possibly damages through a lawsuit. ...
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Industrial archaeology, like other branches of archeology, is the study of the past, but with a focus on industry or industrial heritage. ...
What's left? Of all the countless mines that once were, comparatively few remain available for exploration. The primary reasons for not being able to explore any given mine are: - Flooding: Almost all mines required pumps in their day to keep water out, with the exception of those having the luxury of being self-draining via deep drainage adits. With the pumps turned off, the mines slowly filled with water. Almost all disused mines in the UK are partially flooded, up to the level of the lowest adit, leaving the workings above this level free of water.
- Redevelopment: The sites of old mines are frequently taken over by the Forestry Commission, National Trust or private land developers and unfortunately the general practice seems to be to bulldoze all the adits and cap all the shafts, effectively sealing the mine off. Many mines and their historical significance have been lost forever due to this.
- Collapse: As workings age, the roofs of passageways and chambers can fail. In doing so, the collapsed area itself is of course no longer accessible, but it will also cut off any workings beyond that point where there remains no other way around. There are many mines that have suffered a small collapse right at the entrance (often the most vulnerable part) sealing off large mining complexes beyond.
- Disallowed Access: Legal access to explore mines is not always possible, even though it may be physically possible to get in. All mines, no matter how old, are owned by somebody, and their attitude towards people exploring their private property varies.
- Technical Limitations: Some mines are easy 'walkabouts', while others require immense effort, skill and equipment to explore. The party you're with may simply not have the kit or skills to explore mines above a certain level of difficultly.
Despite all this, there still remain quite a number of mines all over the UK that can be easily explored. Image File history File links MineBridge. ...
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Why do it? "Because It's There", goes the old mountaineering saying - and it applies to mine-exploring too. Like many sports or hobbies, mine-exploring appeals to a certain group of people, while everyone else wonders what they see in it. So long as there are mines to explore, there are those who will commit time and effort to explore them. Image File history File links MineBoating. ...
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It is highly rewarding to walk into an old mine and spend the day wandering along its tunnels; looking up into vast chambers; sometimes even boating across its lakes; and sitting in its underground buildings. Occasionally, old cranes are encountered, or the odd mine wagon sitting parked on the track. Some mines still have locomotives inside or waterwheels, pumps, and drilling equipment. Sometimes an impressive timber bridge will be found, spanning some unfathomable depth. Occasionally, you may cross paths with another exploring party, and exchange route information over a flask of tea. But mine-exploring is not for everyone. A wagon (in British English waggon) or dray is a wheeled vehicle, ordinarily with four wheels, usually pulled by an animal, or animals, such as horses, mules or oxen and used for transport of heavy goods. ...
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UK The extent of Britain's man-made underground world may come as a surprise to the layman. The total length of all the disused mine tunnels sprawling under the ground has never been measured but would easily fall into the thousands of miles (sometimes over 100 miles of track in one mine alone). These workings range from just below the surface to a great depth (1.1 km below the ground are the deepest in the UK), sometimes even leaving the mainland and going several miles out under the sea. The tunnels run through mountains and under cities; they connect the cavernous stopes and cathedral sized chambers from which the minerals were extracted.
Examples Some typical mine exploration locations and type of mines are: This article is about mineral extraction. ...
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Bath Stone is an Oolitic Limestone comprising granular fragments of calcium carbonate. ...
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The slate industry is the industry related to the extraction and processing of slate. ...
Approximate extent of North Wales North Wales (known in some archaic texts as Northgalis) is the northernmost unofficial region of Wales, bordered to the south by Mid Wales. ...
For PB or pb as an abbreviation, see PB. General Name, Symbol, Number lead, Pb, 82 Chemical series poor metals Group, Period, Block 14, 6, p Appearance bluish gray Atomic mass 207. ...
The small village of Nenthead in the county of Cumbria is Englands highest village at 1500 feet. ...
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Crinkle Crags as seen from the adjoining fell of Cold Pike. ...
This article details some of the history of lead mining in Derbyshire. ...
General Name, Symbol, Number tin, Sn, 50 Chemical series poor metals Group, Period, Block 14, 5, p Appearance silvery lustrous gray Atomic mass 118. ...
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Cornwall (Cornish: Kernow) is a county in South West England, United Kingdom, on the peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar. ...
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Grotte des Faux-Monnayeurs, Switzerland Speleology is the scientific study of caves and other karst features, their make-up, structure, physical properties, history, life forms, and the processes by which they form (speleogenesis) and change over time (speleomorphology). ...
Mine rescue teams are specialized groups of people who are familiar with procedures used to rescue persons trapped in mines by hazards. ...
An urban explorer stands near the outfall of a muffin shaped brick and concrete storm drain, under Saint Paul, Minnesota. ...
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