OT Exploring Mining Ghost Town - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Homer J Simpson
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2016, 11:26:30 pm
content: This is from shango066 on you tube,https://www.youtube.com/user/shango066/videos.He does mostly tube / vintage stuff. I found this entertaining to watch.

author: CatalinaWOW
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2016, 12:22:20 am
content: Must have been a slow day Homer.

author: TerraHertz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2016, 10:58:37 am
content: Most frustrating video ever. It says 'mining' and then he never even tries to find an entrance to the mine, let alone gets underground. Spends all his video time in admin and dorm buildings, apparently. Boooooring.I have some real mine exploring videos, but can't post them. Instead have some random urbex photos as consolation after that... tease.

author: rrinker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 24, 2016, 04:36:34 am
content: There are plenty of abandoned place exploration videos on YouTube, including going inside mines, all from places relatively local to me. Coal mining (anthracite) was big near where I live. A couple of interesting highlights - there was a famous disaster than pretty much ended deep mining in one whole region - the mine extended out under a river and they drilled too close to the river bottom. Many of the mines were interconnected, so when it flooded the one it flooded many others. To try and stop the leak they tossed everything they could into the hole, including rail cars. Eventually a giant concrete cap was installed, finally sealing the hole - it's still there and visible today. Too lte for the mines, and the workers who were in it at the time. The other interesting places is where a fire started in a mine under a town (and is still burning). Most people have moved out, a few refused the government buyout over 40 years ago and have remained. It's very spooky, particularly at night when you can see openings glowing in the ground. The main highway through the area had to be rerouted so you still drive through this area - look up Centralia Pennyslvania. It is really something to see - the streets are all there, but the homes were all torn down to prevent squatters. The fire is gradually burning its way to the next town down the mountain, Ashland PA, and will reach there in some number of years.

author: dexters_lab
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 24, 2016, 08:26:35 am
content: shango066 has plenty of proper mine exploration videos there if you look for them, he's often doing urbexing around abandoned mining towns or buildings

author: TerraHertz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 24, 2016, 01:01:47 pm
content: Quote from: rrinker on December 24, 2016, 04:36:34 amThat's one I haven't heard of. Can you give me a name for google?The one where idiots drilled down from a punt in the center of a large lake, and the drill broke through into a very extensive salt mine, that one I've heard of. Lake Peigneur. At least no one died there.Near Sydney all our water supply dams sit on top of extensive coal seams, that have quite vast coal mines through them. Supposedly the mines are supposed to avoid going actually under the reservoirs, but I'm amazed there hasn't yet been any major 'suddenly drained a dam' incidents.Centralia - surely everyone knows about. Would like to see it.In Australia there's Burning Mountain. But that's a natural fire, been going 6000 years.I've seen the New Zealand Denniston - Burnett's Face underground coal mine fire area. Interesting.Probably should have mentioned those pics I posted are a tiny selection from my urbex adventures. Not just off the net. I'm the guy with the backpack.

author: rrinker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 24, 2016, 07:06:02 pm
content: This is the breakthrough into the river:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knox_Mine_disasterCould have been worse, I suppose. 12 were killed. There's a nice map with the article that shows the interconnection of the various mines that all got flooded.We also have several mines around here that operate as tourist attractions and they take you in. Looking at historic pictures from the area you can see huge man-made mountains of mine waste - today many of those are gone as several small power plants operate in the region that can actually burn what was considered waste all those years ago, so the mountains have been hauled away.

author: CatalinaWOW
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 24, 2016, 07:43:58 pm
content: If you want to know about miners on the right side of luck Google "Lake Emma" and "Sunnyside Mine"