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 Post subject: A cool way to tour a mine
PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 5:53 pm 
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 6:17 pm 
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Nice, pretty neat! Looks like it is a Limestone mine.. I'm sure that mine isn't DEP inspected.. I'm not sure if ATV's are permissible.. :roll:

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 6:27 pm 
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Yeah i'm not to sure about that also. I would be worried about the noise of the 4 wheelers and side by sides causing things to fall off the roof. Plus the build up of carbon monoxide.

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In Metal / Non- Metal mines diesel equipment is not uncommon. You're thinking coal where the methane cause the grief.

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The biggest problem is Carbon Monoxide from uncombusted fuel, but yeah diesel and other fuel operated equipment including vehicles actually are common in limestone, salt, and metal mines. So long as you have proper ventilation. You can drive a car inside many limestone mines. I've seen a few programs on sites like Iron Mountain, where they have underground storage and buildings based out of old Limestone Mines. Because of the size of the mine, you have to drive in by car.

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 7:26 pm 
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While it definitely sounds like a lot of fun riding around in an abandoned mine, I wouldn't mind paying just to take a walking tour -- or better yet riding an ore car in! 8)

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I remember on channel 16's (WNEP) they did a story about how DEP was teaming up with a university near Pittsburgh to study abandoned mines, with out actually having to enter them. They mounted a camera and a remote control to you guessed it an " ATV". I never read or saw anything more after that news story. So Im guessing it went no where. ( more state money wasted) . Working at a tour, and Im sure others that have can attest. Even when things go in a predictable manner. Things go wrong. So ATV's ? Just too unpredicable in an unpredictable enviroment.


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thats pretty cool, i just looked at this. i bet they have some good ventilation system in place there. would be interesting to go to, if it wasnt in pittsburgh.

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Bitty coal wont hurt ya Chris ;)

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the chandeliers or black damp might.....

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I remember finding something about that, I can't seem to locate it. But I believe the team took an ATV, fitted it with batteries and an electric motor. They then tried to explore a Bity mine with it. I remember them not getting to far with it as there was some type of obstacle which the "robot" couldn't get past. But that was battery powered though.

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Been in that one Greg. That was an ATV robot fitted with cameras & plots or was supoosed to plot abandoned mine workings.

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Yes, that's the one.. The DEP didn't want the students to go into the mine, so they sent the ATV robot in there... I don't recall it getting very far though as it couldn't navigate the rubble. I guess they were lucky they were able to get the robot out, since they weren't allowed in..

I couldn't find pictures of it, but I remember seeing it..

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The mine is clean as can be actually. There is only one beam down & thats what stopped.

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It would be even more fun if you operate a railed man bus through it thougth it in my opinion, but still looks cool.

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