got sometime on my hand and a backlog of places so thought would put some places up thanks for reading sorry about the long thread
Been here with various people well over 16 visits some of the people i have taken down here are in no order
tommo and petzl ( bloody amazing weekend to remember )
klempner69 cheers stu for a cool day
edd cpnick
and his girlfriend,
fazy_uk,
ojay
,trailbreaker
lostexplorer
and dammed if i can remember the rest,
The mine has got alot worst over the last couple of years,we have completed the whole mine inc the old lead workings and abseiled into the drops off the main passage way , its a very easy mine to get lost in due to the shear size of the place and the layout is very similiar
The rumour is this mine is over 3 levals but ive been told its 5 levals with collapes still with machinary in place that was too expensive to extract
this info is from a ex worker
This mine used to produce around 120 000 tonnes a year of very high quality limestone which is a vital ingredient used in manufacturing plastics, rubber and glass. Middleton Mine has been driven into the hillside from an exisiting surface quarry and follows a particularly pure limestone horizon known as the Bee Low Limestones. Overlying this pure limestone is a bed of impervious volcanic lava that helps to keep the mine dry by acting as a natural barrier to the passage of water.
Mining is carefully controlled, with large pillars of limestone measuring 17 by 17 metres left in place to support the roof of the mine, which may be up to 15 metres high. Undergound mining of limestone has clear environmental advantages, in that most of the operation is out of site and there is a reduction in impacts such as noise and dust. The main barrier to the wider use of underground mining of limestone is its high cost. Health and safety, and mining regulations are expensive to implement underground, and the need to leave limestone pillars to support the roof means that a significant proportion of the valuable mineral goes unused. The high quality of the limestone worked at Middleton Mine means that its market price offsets the higher costs of going underground.
these were used during blasting to check the movement within the mine in this case next to a fault a lead seam
old wooden powder mixer
Been here with various people well over 16 visits some of the people i have taken down here are in no order
tommo and petzl ( bloody amazing weekend to remember )
klempner69 cheers stu for a cool day
edd cpnick
and his girlfriend,
fazy_uk,
ojay
,trailbreaker
lostexplorer
and dammed if i can remember the rest,
The mine has got alot worst over the last couple of years,we have completed the whole mine inc the old lead workings and abseiled into the drops off the main passage way , its a very easy mine to get lost in due to the shear size of the place and the layout is very similiar
The rumour is this mine is over 3 levals but ive been told its 5 levals with collapes still with machinary in place that was too expensive to extract
this info is from a ex worker
This mine used to produce around 120 000 tonnes a year of very high quality limestone which is a vital ingredient used in manufacturing plastics, rubber and glass. Middleton Mine has been driven into the hillside from an exisiting surface quarry and follows a particularly pure limestone horizon known as the Bee Low Limestones. Overlying this pure limestone is a bed of impervious volcanic lava that helps to keep the mine dry by acting as a natural barrier to the passage of water.
Mining is carefully controlled, with large pillars of limestone measuring 17 by 17 metres left in place to support the roof of the mine, which may be up to 15 metres high. Undergound mining of limestone has clear environmental advantages, in that most of the operation is out of site and there is a reduction in impacts such as noise and dust. The main barrier to the wider use of underground mining of limestone is its high cost. Health and safety, and mining regulations are expensive to implement underground, and the need to leave limestone pillars to support the roof means that a significant proportion of the valuable mineral goes unused. The high quality of the limestone worked at Middleton Mine means that its market price offsets the higher costs of going underground.
these were used during blasting to check the movement within the mine in this case next to a fault a lead seam
old wooden powder mixer
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