Posted by Majorman on August 06, 2022 at 04:23:56 from (86.134.80.200):
In Reply to: Re: Saturday Tower posted by Geo-TH,In on August 06, 2022 at 03:31:27:
Heard of both George, over here it is Rio Tinto Zinc. Back in the day the coal mining was done by small individual companies eventually brought under government control in the early years of the 20th century. Now the deep pits are closed and it is all open cast mining.
My uncles worked underground in deep mines, you would never have got me down there, although I have been down a shallow mine in Yorkshire and a salt mine in Austria. That was interesting as there were no cages or ladders, just a wooden slide ad your drop was controlled by a man with a rope over his shoulder. You dropped through a tunnel, slightly wider than your shoulders, with your legs around the person in front, at a speed of between twenty and twenty five miles an hour. You had to be careful that your head or legs did not hit the sides too. The mine was inside a mountain and, after the first slide, the guide told us that the only way out was to drop down another six slides all steeper and longer than the first. Quite an experience.
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