A use for old mines

**the_alienist** · March 8th, 2006, 09:47 PM

Has anyone else seen this? The govt is researching new ways to use abandoned mines.

New Use for Coal Ash

**SWVA-Football** · March 8th, 2006, 09:52 PM

Sounds good.. time to put those things to use!

I was up around some old, abandonded mines last weekend throwing rocks and stuff in them to see what would happen, hehe.

Definitely nice to hear they're going to actually start using them for something. Those abandoned mines like.. give me the creeps.

**the_alienist** · March 8th, 2006, 09:58 PM

not only are they creepy, they're dangerous. Its kind of like leaving a huge empty space in your garage and stacking stuff all around it and not utlizing that space. I mean why not?

**SWVA-Football** · March 8th, 2006, 10:01 PM

Yeah, the one that I was at last weekend was still open (many openings, that is) and you could hear it creeking and cracking like every few seconds. Not to mention, a bunch of rocks would come rolling off of the mountainside like every few minutes.

Definitely creepy stuff.. ain't no way I'd go inside one of those things!

**gcdevil22** · March 8th, 2006, 10:03 PM

theyre safe as long as you go deep inside them and take a baseball bat and take a swing at the walls every couple minutes...it gives it stability

try it out and tell me how it goes

**SWVA-Football** · March 8th, 2006, 10:05 PM

I wasn't actually inside the mines, I just stood outside the opening and threw rocks in there to see how far back it went. It was pitch black after a few feet, so I was curious as to whether it had caved in farther back or if it was still completely open. Could you imagine taking like a hardhat with a light back in there and exploring it? That'd be some wicked stuff! [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

March 9th, 2006, 09:22 AM

MMMM once we quit mining we stop venting so the natural process that oxidizes things depletes the oxygen anywhere there isn't natural air cirulation.... in other words shortly you run out of oxygen- going into old mines is a VERY BAD IDEA, please don't do this. If you feel you have to, make a will.

**TheBeast** · March 9th, 2006, 10:51 AM

I guess the newer ones aren't like the older ones that had a vent that would still let air circulate after the fans were pulled. I don't know anything about this for sure since my experience is limited to the mine sites I have been to just to get a carport order and measure for what size they could fit in.

March 9th, 2006, 03:33 PM

It was never like that , my UG electricians card is dated 1979, the original anyway and NONE vent themselves except by accident- the ones you were at had a fan somewhere , pulling or pushing.

**Jason** · March 9th, 2006, 11:26 PM

Here is a great use for old strip mines! http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Publicatio...2003/3/Elk.cfm [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]