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bigdavevw
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14 years ago

Hi guys i,m just wondering if there are any open/non sealed mines in the Wanlockhead area?
I was recently told that there were 147 mines in the area and that only 1 was open, the Lochnell mine at the mining museum. I was told that the mines are all on privately owned land and that the owner had them all caped/sealed with concrete.

They only take you in 120 yards at the Lochnell mine and its half a mile long! and connects with other mines including Glencreif.

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JeremyL
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13 years ago

Hi. Only just spotted you note on Wanlockhead. The land owner or at least its management stoped all underground work in 1996. This work was done through the Wanlockhead Mine Museun Trust and had been going on since 1970 ish. I started in 1980. A very sad state. If you do find any open be carefull the local gillies are very unfrendly. Jeremy L

dtyson
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13 years ago

I was up at the mining museum earlier in the year and I must admit the underground trip was pretty unexciting. There is a bit of information on exploring the mines in the Red Rose Newsletter:

http://www.rrcpc.org.uk/newsletters/NL_V41_N1_A4.htm

It sounds like its its no longer easy even if you avoid the land owners.

Dave

Tamarmole
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13 years ago

I had a very brief wander around a few years ago. If you continue down the road from the beam engine there looks to be an adit near a small copse (if memory serves) making a fair amount of water - I think it drains the Bay Mine. Don't know if it is a goer - I always meant to pay a return visit - never have.

Talking to freinds who used to live in the area the local estate have got thins tied up pretty tightly and mine exploration isn't on the agenda :thumbdown:

simonrl
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13 years ago

Wasn't there talk of something having opened up a while back or have I got my wires completely crossed there?

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

Pinzgauer
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13 years ago

To enlarge on JeremyL's comment about the local gillies being "very unfriendly". That's a bit of an understatement IMHO. Pig-ignorant and pushing their luck from a legal standpoint is more like it. I was up there a while ago, parked quite legally at the roadside in a place not to cause obstruction to anyone/anything. I was on the hill with bino's (out for walkies, nowt else - not shooting season either). and watched the so-called gillies, not a word I'd use, peer intently into my vehicle (nothing illegal in that) and then try the door handles! Highly bloody illegal !!!

In the absence of a decent rifle, I could do nothing from afar. Their vehicle was later seen parked outside a nearby hotel. Was very tempted to phone the fuzz re: drink driving offence about to be committed, but didn't.

In short - don't take any sh*te from these ASBO seeking hicks from the hills !

Who threw the overalls in Mrs Murphy''s Chowder ??

JeremyL
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Newbie

13 years ago

Bay mine is indeed open but only goes in about 200 yds to a massive fall, a colapsed shaft. It may now sump a short way in as there was only about 1ft of air space some 40ft in, in 1990.
JeremyL

sparty_lea
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13 years ago

It is now sumped... or it was last summer, a few feet in.

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