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carnkie
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16 years ago

Another motivation for mine exploring. Lost weekends and all that.
Take your next tipple almost a quarter of a kilometre underground in what used to be a donkey stable in one of the world’s richest and deepest gold mines. That is, of course, if you don’t mind damp, dark places and don’t suffer from claustrophobia.

You can book this pub any day of the week from 5pm to 9pm, and get there by taking a large, clangy lift down 226 metres to spend a few hours where, back in the 1920s, some 300 donkeys stayed for three months while pulling cocopans filled with gold-laden rocks for removal above ground.

Anyone up for a visit?
http://www.southafrica.info/travel/cultural/goldreef.htm

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

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JR
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16 years ago

I was reaching for me coat before I noticed it's in S. Africa. Too far to go on me bike.

😞

sleep is a caffeine deficiency.

simonrl
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16 years ago

A bit far for me to travel as well :(

Interesting read though!

my orders are to sit here and watch the world go by

carnkie
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16 years ago

Sad that after three months the donkeys had invariably gone blind.
They used mules down the lead mines of Wisconsin in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They had an interesting way of getting them down the shaft. I have a photo that shows a mule upright in what I can only describe as a ribbed wooden frame which was attached to a hoist which then lowered the animal down the shaft. I'm not sure how they got them into the frame. They were though very well treated.

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

Dean Allison
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16 years ago

Makes me wish I hadn't quit drinking!