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We break into groups of 20 and follow our tour guide into a series
of wooden huts. We learn how hard mining was. Miners had only steel bars
and a hammer to punch holes in the granite for dynamite, with only a candle
for light. It was a short life. Later they had mechanical drills and water
to suppress dust.
Now the mine. We don hard hats and enter the mine. It is cold, just 46ºF. We walk on wooden boards placed between the rail tracks for mine cars. Water pours out along a ditch to our right. I bang my hard hat on the roof. I wondered why they all had scratches. |
