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Post by annedw on Jan 24, 2009 18:47:50 GMT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=panSYajhywEVideo about 9 mins long, if you can stay with it for 7 mins, they actually find a childs shoe, also some tools. Just a thought, these people do it for fun, our ancestors often had no choice
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Post by eluned on Jan 24, 2009 20:04:37 GMT
Thanks for that Annette. Filmed by a great bunch of people ;D but their music tastes well... Very interesting to be able to see inside the mine, how horrendous it must have been working there years ago and so so dangerous. I wonder how that shoe got there?
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Post by jojo on Jan 25, 2009 17:54:37 GMT
Just a thought, these people do it for fun, our ancestors often had no choice thanks for the link Annedw. Some thoughts: -Galena (lead) looks quite pretty in the rock. -I wonder if claustrophia can be inherited - just the thought of being down there - ugh! -The discovery of the little shoe was very moving. How lucky we are, not to have to send our children to work like that. -The sight of the man coming up the shaft on the rope ladder reminded me of how my gg uncle died falling down a shaft. I wonder if they were all of similar size to that one. He must have been very slim or exceptionally unlucky not to be able to break his fall. H
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Post by llosgi calch on Jan 26, 2009 22:53:23 GMT
I was lucky enough to have experienced the minera lead mines when I was younger and a member of a local caving club. Very very interesting and very dangerous, what with all the rotting staging and supports. The lead miners of Minera had to pay to have their ore hauled to pit bottom, then again raised to surface, then to have the ore washed, and lead galena seperated - often after paying these fee's they made a loss! Such were the harsh times of their existence and yet so profitable for the mines owners.
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