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Mines around the UK

There are mines throughout the UK. These are just a few examples visited by DCC members. You will find more mining pictures in the . You will find more caving pictures in the Club albums.  

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Geevor Mine, Cornwall and Morwellham Quay, Devon - 2007
Nenthead, Co. Durham - 2006
Rookery Mine (Ashford Black Marble Mine), Derbyshire - 2006
West Mine - 5 June 2005
Golconda Mine - May 2008
Snailbeach Mine, Shropshire - 2008
Clive Mine, Shropshire - 2008
Box Hill Quarry - 2009
Nent Head - 2009

Geevor Mine, Cornwall and Morwellham Quay, Devon - 2007 NAMHO conference
Victoria shaft	Descending by the 300 ft ladderway	In the adit No 3 level	Exit on the coast
Tramway to George and Charlotte Mine	The adit entrance	Underground waterwheel in George and Charlotte Mine	Quay at Morewellham
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Nenthead, Co. Durham - 2006 Tourist trip - photos by Pete Clewes
Warrington Pete	On an improvised bridge (with a safety line)	Pete climbing out	View down a blocked shaft
Ore chute	Looking up a capped and ginged shaft	A winze divided into ore chute and climbing way	Where's the end?
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Rookery Mine (Ashford Black Marble Mine), Derbyshire - 2006 Club visit
In the entrance	One of the main passages with Pete, Ben and Doug	The Pillar in 'the arena'	Looking down a main passage. The red and white tape is presumably a safety measure.
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West Mine - 5 June 2005 Pseudo-caving trip to introduce some novices to caving
1. Waiting to descend Chain Shaft	2. Looking down Chain Shaft	3. After the wet passage	4. Crossing the traverse at Upper Springboard Cavern
5. Simon	6. Top of Laundry Chute	7. Climbing down the short shaft at H-planks	8. Crossing the new rope traverse (seen from below)
9. Crossing the new rope traverse (seen from below)	10. New rope traverse (top) and main passage (below)	11. Crossing the traverse at Manhattan on the way out
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Golconda Mine - May 2008 Courtesy of Wirksworth Mine Exploration Group
Allan and Neil waiting to descend the main 400 ft shaft by winch.	Pete looking over one of the pumps still in place in the mine from the 1950 period.	Steve looks up at a miners' improvised staircase.	Neil poses beside a full tub of barites rich material waiting to be tipped down the chute into other tubs that were taken to the surface.
Writing on a ceiling in the Great Shack. The writing dates the working to the 1790s.	In the Great Shack where there is natural calcite deposited in the chamber. The Great Shack was a natural cave infilled with mud and galena.	Steve poses beside an older type of metal tub in a series of workings closer to the surface.	In the Forest Chamber where there are a number of timber props. There is a pool on the floor and an active stream comes into the chamber from above.
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Snailbeach Mine, Shropshire - 2008 Snailbeach was mined up to he 1950s for lead and later barite. The visit was made with members of the SCMC to whom we are very grateful.
Preparing the ladders. This was a retro trip but with SRT for those who had forgotten their ladder technique.	In one of the main stopes. The floor is loose debris.	The NAMHO Chairman makes his way through a small connection between stopes.	Kelvin points out features of the vein on the 40 yard level.
Mining tools left at a bothy on the 40 yard level. The enamelled can still contains a liquid.	More tools. The two rods nearer to the right are copper-ended ramming rods.	Steve, Robert and Emma have a break near two wooden tubs that are still on the rails that lead towards Black Tom's Shaft.	Two rare relics to find underground: the screen would normally be found on the surface, and the item on the screen is a carpenter's measuring rod to work out the length of timber to cut.
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Clive Mine, Shropshire - 2008 Visited the same weekend as Snailbeach. This mine is totally different being a copper mine in sandstone, similar to the Alderley mines, especially Engine Vein.
In the near surface workings east of the manhole entrance.	Typical of the narrower workings with the main fault wall on the right. Looking north west.	Crossing the traverse on the way in. The passage drops down here to the bottom level from where ore was taken to the hauling shaft, south of the main stope.	Some of the iron and copper banding in the rock on the hanging wall side of the main fault.
In the main passage showing an extensive area of iron banding.	Copper and iron staining in the wall.	Looking north west. The picture show not only the main fault on the right but also the second fault on the left which makes much of the open stoping into a wedge shape. This probably helps the stability of the roof.	Crossing the traverse on the return route out.
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Box Hill Quarry - 2009 Visit to Box Hill with the Wealden Cave and Mine Society - 7 November 2009
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Approaching Jack's entrance	Jack's Entrance	The Black Horse with Robert giving the story of Captain	Crane in the Southern Region off Bridgegate Road
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Graffiti	Blocks waiting to be taken out of the mine - Emma posing	Workings and a roadway with pillar - on the way to Coronation Cut	Inspecting blocks. Saw sharpening bench in the background
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General view of a worked out roadway	Saw sharpening bench	More stacked slabs awaiting shipping to the surface. This was probably a winter workshop area.	The Penny Farthing
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Boxing graffiti	Bryan poses beside a survey mark from the past	More boxing graffiti and tally marking	The walled off section of B12 that runs close to one of the Box Tunnel air shafts.
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Graffiti recording the death of one of the miners: 'Richard Cousins was killed heare August 2nd 1876 Age 18 year'	A passage joins B12 from another area of working	Lunch break in B12 near the well	Looking down the well
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The well in B12	The brick store and …	... some of the sculptures. Henry Moore doesn't need to worry about his reputation.	Approaching MOD territory
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Going through the grille on the connecting passage to Spring and Tunnel	Don comes through the grille. You're never too old!	The steel door to Spring Quarry	Grille into Groundstone Quarry. Spring Quarry and Tunnel are to the right.
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Grille into Groundstone Quarry.	Brewer's Drift, the air tunnel into Tunnel and Spring Quarry	The blocked inner end of Brewer's Drift	Starting out of Brewer's Drift with the incredible roof support.
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And more supports. These are concrete pipes with steel reinforcing (not a steel 'forrest' as someone described it on UkCaving).	Another shot of the supported area	Emma at the outer end of Brewer's Drift where it rejoins Box proper.	Looking down the stairs at Ginny Ring climbing shaft
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Tea break near Ginny Ring shafts	Typical worked out area, not cleaned up to be used as a roadway	Walling in the last worked area of Clift Works passage nearing the Clift Works entrance	Near the Clift Works Entrance
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Clift Works Entrance and - no - you can't get out!	The odd experience of looking out of Clift Works entrance with the A4 in the distance	The Cathedral	The Cathedral
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Looking into the Cathedral from the northern branch	Looking west in the Cathedral with the normal entrance in the distance	Crawling out of Back Door	It's a long slog up that hill after five hours underground
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Nent Head - 2009 NAMHO Council meeting weekend
The entrance to Middlecleugh Level	Inside the mine where the passage divides	Kevin looking at the graffiti at a sump in the main level	Detail of the 1794 camel on the graffiti
Wooden rails in the floor of the passage	Steve has a rest at a niicely arched branch passage	Kelvin emerging from the level into a wider area where the shale has collapsed a bit. Red colouring comes from ochre.	The main level showing clearly how full of water it had been before the entrance was cleared.
Leaving Middlecleugh Level
Brewery Shaft in the trees from the track	Looking down Brewey Shaft	A person being lowered down the shaft passes the inset where the kibbles were off-loaded	Climbing down the debris at the bottom with the air receiver on the right
The air receiver at the bottom of the shaft showing the apparatus that separated compressed air from water	The remains of the generating set with two smaller Pelton wheels, one covered. The generator is on the left and the governor on the right.	The Pelton wheel that drove the Broom & Wade compressor (to the right)	Crank shaft and flywheel from the compressor
The work bench with damaged piston	An oil drum labelled 'For Rampgill Mill'	Two oil cans in the compressor room	The concrete lined water way leading to the waterwheel
The underground waterwheel in Brewery Shaft area	Remains of a wooden truck with metal wheels just beyond the waterwheel	The level heading into the mines with the wheels from a truckstacked against the wall	A passaing place for trucks heading to Brewery Shaft.
In the main Rampgill level with stals coming from the limestone beds	Matt looking at a metal ore-chute in Rampgill Level	Neatly walled passage in Rampgill	Remains of the horse gin in Scaleburn Level in Rampgill
Miners' stairs to an upper level in Rampgill	Emerging from the stairs into a higher sub-level	Graffiti in Scaleburn Vein	Ochre running down into the main passage in Scaleburn level.
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