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LAP Joined: 04/02/2007 Location: Somewhere between Carnforth/Carn-Ffyrdd, and Milnthorpe. View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Svalbard, Nord Norge - Coal Mines
Posted: 06/10/2009 20:11:33 Reply | Quote The mines here must be some of the most northernly in the world. Anyhow here's a website giving a brief history: [link] I don't know about underground, but the surface remains are certainly very impressive. Obviously the danger of coming across polar bears is an issue to be taken into account, although many of the mines in Northwestern America have similar access difficulties due to grizzly bears. -- Kein geneis kanaf. Byt vndyd mwyhaf. Lliaws a bwyllaf Ac a bryderaf. Kyfarchaf y veird byt. Pryt nam dyweid Py gynheil y byt. Na syrch yn eissywyt. Neur byt bei syrchei IP: 81.79.142.194 |
rhychydwr Joined: 09/06/2007 Location: Cwmparc, Rhondda, South Wales, UK. View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Svalbard, Nord Norge - Coal Mines
Posted: 06/10/2009 20:30:20 Reply | Quote Interesting. I always thought the Brora Mines in Scotland were the most northern mines in Europe. Not anymore  -- Cutting coal in my spare time. IP: 89.240.203.118 |
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LAP Joined: 04/02/2007 Location: Somewhere between Carnforth/Carn-Ffyrdd, and Milnthorpe. View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 06/10/2009 21:23:08 Reply | Quote Ah, In Shetland? I heard there were some mines in Shetland. I don't think there are any in the Faroes, which is annoying because if there were.. that'd be an even better excuse to go there  -- Kein geneis kanaf. Byt vndyd mwyhaf. Lliaws a bwyllaf Ac a bryderaf. Kyfarchaf y veird byt. Pryt nam dyweid Py gynheil y byt. Na syrch yn eissywyt. Neur byt bei syrchei IP: 81.79.142.194 |
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rhychydwr Joined: 09/06/2007 Location: Cwmparc, Rhondda, South Wales, UK. View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 06/10/2009 21:28:49 Reply | Quote Brora is on mainland Scotland, just 20 miles south west of Wick. Shetland, these are mainly metal mines. -- Cutting coal in my spare time. IP: 89.240.203.118 |
carnkie Joined: 07/09/2007 Location: camborne, cornwall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 06/10/2009 23:13:06 Reply | Quote Of course global warming will bring more mineral deposites north of Wrexham into play. See Black Angel [link] -- The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. IP: 80.47.254.141 |
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