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pierkisser
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2552245/The-psychedelic-salt-Abandoned-Russian-tunnels-mind-bending-patterns-naturally-cover-surface.html

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11 years ago

just. Wow. That is incredible, see, this is why I wish I worked in mining engineering, could perhaps get a trip there 😛

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11 years ago

What fantastic pictures.
All we get is dull black or grey

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Wormster
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11 years ago

Ho Hum!! - the Daily Fail is wayyyy behind the web, this was posted on "English Russia" a while back!

I was stunned when I first saw the photo's though, and, like most would love to see it with my Mk1 eyeballs!

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dwarrowdelf
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11 years ago

What an amazing place!

reminds me a bit of some of those rather lurid fantasy world artworks one occasionally sees, only a hundred times more wonderful as it happens to be real.....and underground 🙂

I haven't heard of Carnallite before. Seems to produce stable roadways judging from the photos, similar to photos i've seen of the roadways driven in rock salt.
Wonder if they get anything remotely similar in Boulby potash mine.

(By the way didn't, as usual, think much of the text. Have downloaded the photos so I can enjoy them at my leisure without being subjected to "Daily Fail speak" every time I look at them)

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UrbanExplorer2k
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11 years ago

Amazing pictures, looks like a amazing place

4737carlin
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11 years ago

These remind of the Swedish subway art on the Stockholm Metro (google it), amazing, thanks for posting the link pierkisser

iestyn999
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11 years ago

"4737carlin" wrote:
These remind of the Swedish subway art on the Stockholm Metro (google it), amazing, thanks for posting the link pierkisser

Can we go to Russia via Stockholm!? those stations look awesome :thumbsup:

Roy Morton
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11 years ago

"Isabel Gott" wrote:
What fantastic pictures.
All we get is dull black or grey

Maybe not all the time though...........

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derrick man
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11 years ago

#10

I assume the circular shapes were left by a Dosco or something similar?

AdM Michael
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11 years ago

#11

The machine looks more like this:

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/appraiser-appraised-after-potash-deal/427802.html

It was most likely one of these three:
http://www.kopemash.ru/en/products/68/368.html
http://www.kopemash.ru/en/products/68/367.html
http://www.kopemash.ru/en/products/68/366.html

Carnallite certainly isn't as good as you think. Good salt, but bad rockmechanical properties and even worse in connection with water. A lot of rockburst in potash mines are closely linked to Carnallite just like collapsed mines after a brine ingress.