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  1. Rhosydd is one of the larger slate mines near Blaenau Ffestiniog, North Wales. Of the original 14 levels, 5 are permanently flooded and around 100 chambers are still accessible. This incline is unusual in having wide gauge rails carrying slate trucks on a wagon while a heavy counterbalance wagon ran on narrower rails s...

  2. Prior to blasting the salt, a machine cuts a slot at the base of the salt bed.

  3. Underground Atlanta is a failed attempt to engage the public in some form of communal space.

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  4. This section of the mine was completed in December 2004 in preparation for the opening of the museum exhibits. The miners signed their handiwork.

  5. A 180 degree panorama of one of the larger underground caverns in the Salt Mine Museum.

  6. When groundwater seeps into the salt beds it dissolves and recrystallizes the salt into large pure crystals.

  7. The Capitol of Pensylvania from the Western Shore of the Susquehanna River. The river is so shallow in most places that you can walk across it without getting your belt wet. The saying here is 'a mile wide and knee deep'. At the left third there is a building that comes down to the steps on the waterfront. The concrete...

  8. Vicinity of Bleanau Ffestiniog, North Wales. Several levels down, too wet to go any deeper. The cable mechanism is a Blondin, named after the tightrope walker and used for carrying slate across the open chamber.

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  9. Pant y Wrach copper mine, North Wales. Natural growths in a man-made tunnel, formed over the last 150 years or so. A nice little mine with lots to see, but access is along a rather damp adit, flooded to knee level, then a short crawl. Not somewhere to visit in your Sunday best. Trying out some underground photo tec...

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