Connected Sites
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Flint. (Vertical ladder)
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Coal. Big Pit (Original "Cage")
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Copper. Bartlomej Pit (walk in/out), Glanzenberg Mining tunnel (steps)
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Coal. Blegny Mine (cage)
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Gold, Gallery of Ortellan (walk in along Roman tunnel)
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Great Pit - copper - can be visited on a guided tour, via stairs down (67m) and there's an elevator up
See www.falugruva.se
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Sohdayu Tunnel Mine: A 30-minute tour recreates the mining experience of the Edo period (1603-1867) with dolls and other tools in the remnants of hand-dug tunnels.
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Silver, Ryugenju Mabu mine shaft (walk along old tunnel)
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Gold. Mina do Chico Rey - accessible on foot, walk in/out.
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Salt. Wieliczka (Tourist route - normally stairs in, Miners route - elevator) and Bochnia Mine (Cage)
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Llechwedd Slayte caverns
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Lead/Silver. (modern elevator); Black Trout Adit (Sztolnia Czarnego Pstrąga) - different part of the site - can be reached by stairs and an underground river by boat
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At Rosia Montana Gold Mining Museum
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Zink/Lead, Rammelsberg
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Silver. Cerro Rico (walk in/out)
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Part of core zone in Sawahlunto town is Museum Situs Lubang Tambang Mbah Suro. It is possible to walk for around 500 meters underground. There are plans to extend that.
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"Thousands of years of occupation by bats who deposited guano in the soil of Mammoth Cave and other area caves made the cave dirt rich with a compound called calcium nitrate. Calcium nitrate is a mineral that can be mixed with other high potassium materials to create potassium nitrate, or saltpetre, as it is more commonly known. Saltpetre is an principal ingredient in black gunpowder."
See www.nps.gov
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Flint / via a spiral staircase
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Mercury ,Almaden (elevator in, railway out); Idrija part in Slovenia - mercury mine accessible with guide on foot.
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Hallstatt Salt Mine: "Two long miners' slides take you deep underground to the mystic salt lake. A mine train returns you safely and comfortably back into the daylight."
See dachstein.salzkammergut.at
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Tin, "Poldark Mine" (Originally "Wheal Roots Mine" 18th C workings opened to the public as a "tourist attraction")
