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christwigg
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13 years ago

Lucky Mr Portillo gets an underground tour of Europes largest Zinc mine. Well worth watching.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01bqn5v/Great_British_Railway_Journeys_Series_3_Goes_to_Ireland_Enfield_to_Drogheda/

22 minutes in.

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scooptram
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13 years ago

i work with some of the lads that came from Tara mine all bloody mad :lol: but know there job

Roy Morton
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13 years ago

"scooptram" wrote:
i work with some of the lads that came from Tara mine all bloody mad :lol: but know there job

Are you sure they didn't choose the mad ones specially because you are working there? :angel: :lol:

When You back in God's own County again mate ?

"You Chinese think of everything!"
"But I''m not Chinese!"
"Then you must have forgotten something!"

boaz
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13 years ago

The guy, Joe Rice, who took Portillo underground retired in January, his last shift was the 11th. I think he had worked there 30+ years

agricola
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13 years ago

You would have to go a long way to find a nicer guy than Joe, He and others in his department took me underground on a visit back in 2006, a real star.

If it can't be grown it has to be mined.

scooptram
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13 years ago

got back to cornwall wed night Roy

Cork Miner
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12 years ago

"boaz" wrote:
The guy, Joe Rice, who took Portillo underground retired in January, his last shift was the 11th. I think he had worked there 30+ years

Joe is still involved as a consultant on an ad hoc basis