We went on a tour 1/2 mile underground
You enter 6'x6' cages with ten other people to be lowered into the mine
You are lowered by this Headframe
You get in these cars to move thru the tunnel
This is the little electric tug the pulls or pushes you thru the tunnel
The blue is the Iron Ore
To get to the drilling sight you had to go up manways. The miners used wooden ladders the spiral staircase is for the tourists.
They would always drill up and blast using the slag to build a new floor to go higher
Used to move supplies like dynamite
Ore conveyor to load the train cars
This mine is a State Park and is on the National Historical Registry
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