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There are three entrances on the north side of the face; all are covered with corrugated metal siding. The siding has come loose on one; I'm 6'0" 260lbs and barely fit through the man-squeeze between the two-by-fours holding the whole thing up. This is a view of the inside of the gate.
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One of the rooms is walled off with cinder blocks; it's empty except for PVC pipe, buckets, and miscellaneous junk. It was probably the underground shop and storeroom for the mine.
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I thought that this 'DANGER - EXPLOSIVES' sign was worthy of a photo op, with obligatory face hiding.
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I believe that the drifts here are approximately 20 feet high by forty feet wide. It seems like someone wanted to use the mine as a warehouse, based on pickup tire tracks and 'CONTROL STORAGE' being painted on the gate, but it didn't pan out.
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This is the gnarliest pillar failure I've ever seen. The pillar intserects a pocket of clay, which dissolved once it got wet. As you get towards the eastern side of the mine, the back (roof) conditions get sketchy. There are a bunch of rock falls and mangled roof bolts, and some installed roof bolts that backed out almost a foot from stresses. In addition to the three entrances on the northern pit wall, there is a fourth on the eastern wall. The workings there seem to be under the ready-mix plant, and are slowly failing from the weight of the plant, its stockpiles, and the massive heap of waste concrete. We didn't enter them for obvious reasons.