Signals (In Explore)
One day while we were visiting Colorado, we went outside of town and took the tour of the Old Hundred Gold Mine. We were lucky to have a guide that worked the mines in the Silverton area and was very knowledgeable about the mining processes in this area. This is a picture of how the miners communicated to each other on the different levels of the mine. There is quite a list of different signals for them to memorize to know what was being requested.
This mine was founded in the late 1800s, but it was never profitable according to what I read. They did find gold here, but the ore ran out after a few years, and the mine changed ownership a few times over time. Now you can ride down into the mine in real mine car and see how things were done 100 years ago. I always thought these mines started at the top on worked down to the gold. Wrong, they started at the base of the mountain and tried to follow a vein up to the top of the mountain. They would use gravity to get the ore to fall down into the shafts where they could take the ore back down to be processed. Pretty dangerous work, but very profitable when it worked.
Signals (In Explore)
One day while we were visiting Colorado, we went outside of town and took the tour of the Old Hundred Gold Mine. We were lucky to have a guide that worked the mines in the Silverton area and was very knowledgeable about the mining processes in this area. This is a picture of how the miners communicated to each other on the different levels of the mine. There is quite a list of different signals for them to memorize to know what was being requested.
This mine was founded in the late 1800s, but it was never profitable according to what I read. They did find gold here, but the ore ran out after a few years, and the mine changed ownership a few times over time. Now you can ride down into the mine in real mine car and see how things were done 100 years ago. I always thought these mines started at the top on worked down to the gold. Wrong, they started at the base of the mountain and tried to follow a vein up to the top of the mountain. They would use gravity to get the ore to fall down into the shafts where they could take the ore back down to be processed. Pretty dangerous work, but very profitable when it worked.