malccpc
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15 years ago
If anyone is interested, I have posted a short video of a CCPC trip down Fauld Gypsum Mine (2003) on youtube:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=JP&hl=ja&v=vemK1ncYoKk 
rikj
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15 years ago
Great video. Thanks for posting.
Morlock
15 years ago
Very nice, thanks. 🙂
rhychydwr
15 years ago
That definitely frighten me. 😮
Cutting coal in my spare time.
Brakeman
15 years ago
Excellent bit of video that, I wonder if BG still offer trips around the mine?
The management thanks you for your co operation.
Moorebooks
15 years ago

I was led to believe it had closed down?

The hanbury crater is also well worth looking at and is linked to the mine http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/content/articles/2008/08/15/hanbury_crater_feature.shtml 

and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Fauld_Explosion 

Mike
malccpc
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15 years ago
CCPC were invited because of their involvement in cave and mine rescue work.
sougher
15 years ago
There is some more information about this mine and the explosion on the AN Forum topic entitled "Fauld gypsum Mine - Radio 4 Open Country" dated 21st November, 2009.
Brakeman
15 years ago
"Moorebooks" wrote:


I was led to believe it had closed down?

Mike



No still working, or at least it was late last year, wouldn't mind a trip in there, best to be driven down on the back of a transit or similar, I think the main adit road is 5 miles long . :blink:
The management thanks you for your co operation.
market man
15 years ago
ace video thanks for posting
stuey
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15 years ago
I would very much like to have a peer into the old section.

http://www.monkton-farleigh.co.uk/Fauld%20pictures%20nine.htm 

Good link there ^^^^

Any previous talk about having a look has attracted huge hand wringing due to it's subsequent "grave" status. As that series of pictures show, the HE store which got torn to atoms was actually extensively rebuilt. Emotional hand wringing and "you'll get blown up" aside, it looks like a seriously interesting place to have a poke around.

There was one chap who maintained there was an entrance into the workings from the crater. Sadly, just when the topic was getting really interesting, with odd photos of "stuff" in the crater, the hand wringers came out and got all authoritarian about it.

Anyway, Old Fauld Mine has to be one of the potentially riveting explores possible. Contrary to popular hysteria, it would be unlikely you were climbing over bodies and unexploded ordnance.

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