What would you think about riding out a nuclear war in an abandoned mine? Using an abandoned mine as a fallout shelter certainly has its merits. There are some big problems though - and I’m not just referring to being crammed into an abandoned mine with hundreds of people waiting to emerge into a radioactive wasteland…
The biggest problem I see is that I have only ever visited one mine that was in - or even near - a city (if you’re curious, I’ll post the link below). Every other mine that I have visited is out in the middle of nowhere. The mine in this video is no exception. In fact, it’s REALLY out in the middle of nowhere. How would people get to these abandoned mine fallout shelters in time? This mine is literally hours from any population center.
Regardless, the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (in cooperation with officials from the great state of Nevada) surveyed more than 90 abandoned mines in the late 1960s as part of the famous Civil Defense program. The intent was to set up a series of fully stocked fallout shelters inside of abandoned mines. The plan never fully came to fruition - probably for the major issue I cited above - but one does still come across Civil Defense supplies that were stockpiled in abandoned mines on occasion. I’ve shown one in Tombstone, Arizona on this channel.
Mining started at this particular mine in the 1870s with miners pulling gold from those quartz veins we saw underground… Even more abundant than gold though was barite (of which the reports suggest there may still be large amounts). So, when the easy gold had been pulled out, the mine evolved into a barite mine.
Tough to imagine that the miners in the 1800s would have thought that their mine was proposed as a fallout shelter for a nuclear war in the future…
The mine in a city that I mentioned above was this one:
• You Would Not Believe ...
It’s in Florence, Italy… A mine like that would NEVER be open in the U.S.
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Growing up in California’s “Gold Rush Country” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them - nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that colorful niche of our history is gone forever. But, you know what? We enjoy doing it! This is exploring history firsthand - bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a century, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.
So, yes, in short, we are adit addicts… I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!
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