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mrbrucey
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11 years ago

Does anyone know which welsh slate mine has the deepest drops.......?

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royfellows
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11 years ago

You after an SRT drop or just want to know biggest chambers?

Aberllefenni has chambers over 100 ft high with openings to day you can access on surface if you are looking for a good constipation cure.

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mrbrucey
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11 years ago

just interested in the biggest drops, would imagine Aber mine has sheer drops of hundreds and hundreds of feet

royfellows
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11 years ago

"mrbrucey" wrote:
just interested in the biggest drops, would imagine Aber mine has sheer drops of hundreds and hundreds of feet

Difficult to say exactly but I bet someone on here knows.

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simonrl
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11 years ago

Aberllefenni or Hen Gloddfa.

I seem to recall there was a chamber in Oakeley that spanned a tremendous number of floors. Ch14? Obviously not a vertical drop though.

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mrbrucey
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11 years ago

i heard years ago THAT mine near corris had a vertical shaft from the top of the mountain to the underground levels, that could be 800 feet plus if so

mrbrucey
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11 years ago

@ Roy i would do it but probably take 40mg of valium !!!

grahami
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11 years ago

"SimonRL" wrote:
Aberllefenni or Hen Gloddfa.

I seem to recall there was a chamber in Oakeley that spanned a tremendous number of floors. Ch14? Obviously not a vertical drop though.

Yes - many did that - but as you say, not vertically due to the slant of the veins. Now if Dinorwic or Penrhyn had been worked like Aberllefenni.... 😮 😮

Grahami

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