We keep on seeing various posts about what is happening at
Greenlaws mine and the progress that is being made, so it was high time go and
have a look. It has been 8 years since we last visited, at that time two
workings had been accessed, but the main flats where still
illusive.
When we arrived at the mine site, we noticed many new things,
a shipping container was there that was being used as a generator house and a
going underground station with a list of people down. There was a little 'hut'
for the ventilation fan and the original winch had been upgraded many times
over.
One of the biggest changes was the driving of a connecting tunnel
in the great limestone that connected the rest of the workings by bypassing a
collapsed stope. This breakthrough was in autumn 2018 and it allowed with
additional digging, shaft bridging and various other obstacle clearing the team
to reach as far as Cuthburt Colling's Crosscut in the north east. A large
amount of flats have been accessed as a result of this. Including drops into
parts of the Wagon Drift and Jackson's Level.
Quite a number of
artefacts have been found, along with fantastic mineralisation of fluorite
cubes (galore). Most of the workings now that are accessible have an
electricity and water supply. This is an ongoing project since September
2009! |
