First published: 03/09/17.

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Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine

Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine (Inscribed)

Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine by Tsunami

I visited the Historic Silver Mine and the Black Trout Adit in August 2017.

There is a private train line between Katowice and Tarnowskie Gory, which is much cheaper than the Polish National Rail.

At 9:30 I took a bus from the bus station by the TG train station, which dropped me off right in front of the Historic Silver Mine Visitor Center / museum. It opened at 10:00 and my tour started at about 10:30.

I was told that the English tour is only at 12:00 and was given a few pages of the site description in English. But soon after the tour started, I gave up on reading it up because it was difficult to read it in the darkness of the mine.

After the tour ended at about 12:00, I decided on how to get to the Black Trout Adit by looking at the bus routes and time tables at the bus stop in front of the Visitor Center and by Google Mapping the names of various bus stop names along the routes to find the nearest bus stop to the Adit.

I took a bus, which came at about 12:30, from the Visitor center at 50°25'30.4"N 18°51'01.3"E to this bus stop 50°25'07.1"N 18°49'40.5"E and walked the rest of the way to the Black Trout Adit at 50°25'38.2"N 18°48'26.1"E.

The 600 m boat ride in the underground canal at the Adit, which is to show us the Underground Water Management System, was the longest underground boat ride I have taken, in which sense it was somewhat interesting.

On the way back I took a bus from 50°25'14.6"N 18°49'04.5"E directly to the train station where I arrived by 15:30.

I visited the largest salt mine in Poland at Klodawa several days later, and this one where I went down to the depth of 600 m, was, although not a WHS or TWHS, not only more interesting than TG, but also was one of the most intriguing mines I've ever visited. The photos from this mine can also been seen at the link below.

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