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 rogerneon
 
Location: Portland, Oregon USA
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 |  |  |  | Re: Mine hazards:
<Reply # 40 on 11/25/2003 4:30 PM >
|  | | | In the western USA, the mining museums in the Grass Valley/Nevada City, California area are among the best to be seen. One museum contains a truly astonishing 3-dimensional model of two adjacent mines that was constructed at a time when nobody had even HEARD of such a thing as a computer.
The main reason these (gold) mines were not reopened after World War II is the fact that they're full of water which contains naturally-occurring but still very nasty pollutants.
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Intalex
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| | Re: Mine hazards:
<Reply # 41 on 11/25/2003 10:00 PM >
|  | | | Posted by rogerneon
The main reason these (gold) mines were not reopened after World War II is the fact that they're full of water which contains naturally-occurring but still very nasty pollutants.
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Which follows on from what I was saying about mines closing due to being too dangerous to work in.
Alot of the mines that stopped working during world war 2, weren't opened after the war had finished simply because of all the technological advancements made during that period. Things were discovered about toxicity of certain chemicals during tests for chemical bombs and things.
At least that's as far as I know from things I've read.
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Draggo
Location: Quesnel B.C., Canada.
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Mine hazards:
<Reply # 42 on 12/7/2003 5:00 AM >
|  | | | Most of our mines around here are from the thirties, they prospered during the great depression. goldrush mines from the 1860s are way to dangerous or just collapsed to go near. When me and a friend were biking part of an old wagon road to barkerville we found an old mine shaft at a minesite, about three quarters of it was collapsed though and it just looked like a 200 meter long trench. There's also a lake where there was a a pile of tailings dumped. the field around the tailings hasn't had anything growing on it since, just a yellow brown area of dirt.
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masher
Gender: Male
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| | Re: Mine hazards:
<Reply # 43 on 12/8/2003 3:10 PM >
| | | | a good place if you want to see a coal mine is in the mining musium in cape breaton nova scotia. they actualy take you into a mine and explain how mines evolved and how things were done in the mines. it's kind of neat because they take you through tunnels where you have to duck because they are too short to stand. it would be interesting to explore a mine in detail but the dangers you mentioned are very informative
p.s. i'm sure you already knew this but another danger that coal mines have is the coal dust that they leave behind. they are explosive so don't light anything
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