Cononish Gold Mine, Highlands - June 2009

[BenCooper]

In the hills North of Loch Lomond, at the end of a quiet glen, this mine closed down in 1995 after producing not much gold - it might reopen soon, though.

 

[Lightbuoy]

Superb Ben -the first pic I'm loving -the way those mine cars disappear into the darkness, in fact, all ya pics are dog-gone fine!!!

Thanks for posting

 

[james.s]

Absolutely awesome! I am liking the bulldozer thingy

 

[swedish]

Im in argeement, some banging shots! really nice subject matter, lots of colour an some really clever camera ideas..good report, thanks for posting BenCooper!

 

[BigLoada]

First class photos from you as always! Great looking mine, and good to see an Eimco tracked loader down there.

 

[BenCooper]

Is that what it is? Thanks

 

[lost]

Nice work BC, it's a pretty small place but very interesting anyway.

 

[mexico75]

Great shot's bud, nice too know this place isn't an uber 1337 secret know

 

[Foxylady]

Oh, this is great! Love the whatever BigLoada said it was.
Excellent pics as always, Ben. Fabulous find.

 

[Sabtr]

I homed in on this when I saw the word "mine" !

Looks a good place to visit. High roofs, clean floors etc. It is good that it may re-open too. We could never have too many mines.

Some cracking shots there. Thanks for posting.

 

[ThenewMendoza]

Superb!!

M

 

[thompski]

Cracking pictures and place, thanks

 

[fluffy5518]

Stunning photography again BC,all your posts are first class !! KEEP IT UP !!!

 

[night crawler]

What can I say but I saw them on Flickr first totally amasezing. Well done that man

 

[boothy]

Cracking pics mate,looks a really good explore

 

[BenCooper]

What can I say but I saw them on Flickr first totally amasezing. Well done that man

Cheers - yes, Flickr picked one of these pictures for their blog entry yesterday, so today my Flickr stream is getting about 30x as many views as usual

 

[night crawler]

Yep and a couple of messages were mine (Backsteet Crawler) Your work is well impressive some thing to learn from.

 

[crickleymal]

I homed in on this when I saw the word "mine" !

Looks a good place to visit. High roofs, clean floors etc. It is good that it may re-open too. We could never have too many mines.

Some cracking shots there. Thanks for posting.

Dingly ding. Ditto from me

 

[tommo]

spot on pics buddy, really nice colours, must say though isnt there one pic missing!! lol or is that a special one

 

[zimbob]

... must say though isnt there one pic missing!! lol or is that a special one

I think that's best

Nice one Ben