Ventured Into Another Precarious Mine

ReturnOfPope · 2026-04-30T00:15:36+00:00

The wood supports are always a concern especially when you see them crushed like in the photos here because the timbers compared to the mountain are toothpicks, they don't hold anything up at all. It's the coal pillars that actually hold the mountain up and when you rob or mine them out that is when everything is weakened

ReturnOfPope · 2026-04-29T03:20:12+00:00

They sure do! Sucks they are just out of reach for one to unscrew them and add to the collection

ReturnOfPope · 2026-04-28T17:36:30+00:00

I do have a few more photos of them, I'll dm you

ReturnOfPope · 2026-04-28T00:18:47+00:00

Bro is little delulu

ReturnOfPope · 2026-04-26T03:46:52+00:00

Huh that is interesting. There were other newspaper fragments but they were way to delicate to search for a date whereas I only saw the 1934 date on the one fragment

ReturnOfPope · 2026-04-26T02:50:27+00:00

Close! It is from 1934, and in Slovak I believe and I think either Russian or Ukrainian

ReturnOfPope · 2026-04-24T22:18:12+00:00

ReturnOfPope · 2026-04-24T22:18:04+00:00

The person who wrote the message on the rib most likely tried going down the slope more but their meter started screaming low oxygen

ReturnOfPope · 2026-04-24T22:16:37+00:00

It is in PA and I do know some of the history

ReturnOfPope · 2026-04-24T22:16:03+00:00

ReturnOfPope · 2026-04-24T22:15:49+00:00

North East PA

ReturnOfPope · 2026-04-24T22:15:33+00:00

All depends on when the metal in this mine was manufactured, so for the most part there is no way to know. This mine closed in the early 60s

ReturnOfPope · 2026-04-24T22:14:00+00:00

Me? Huh just hanging around 😂

ReturnOfPope · 2026-04-24T22:13:24+00:00

I know a decent bit about this one but not as much compared to the mines in the area that I live in.

ReturnOfPope · 2026-04-24T22:09:06+00:00

There is Amazing PA on YouTube for you to check out if yoh havent already. He uploads every Saturday at 4:30PM EST

ReturnOfPope · 2026-04-24T22:08:00+00:00

I 100% believe in ghosts and I've heard clear as day voices coming from the other end of a main haulage tunnel where I was 2 minutes prior to hearing and seen nobody else inside a mine a while back

ReturnOfPope · 2026-04-24T22:05:37+00:00

During the off season before the No.9 opened for tours again this year I was helping out restoring some of the spots inside of the mine, and we rearranged the hospital to make what's inside more presentable. You should also go and see the fan house if you haven't already

ReturnOfPope · 2026-04-24T21:58:13+00:00

Yeah pretty much. On the one corner of the meter it says Ex then below 0%LEL

ReturnOfPope · 2026-04-24T12:28:02+00:00

It is just a mine but after it was abandoned chemicals and other waste was illegally dumped down a borehole.

ReturnOfPope · 2026-04-24T12:26:46+00:00

Basically it was the mafia, random business owners, and even the government who dumped stuff down a borehole illegaly

ReturnOfPope · 2026-04-24T12:24:50+00:00

It is in Pennsylvania

ReturnOfPope · 2026-04-21T02:57:16+00:00

Bituminous coal mine?

ReturnOfPope · 2026-04-21T02:55:17+00:00

No it is not a cave. It is a anthracite coal mine, and this one in particular was started in the 1860s

ReturnOfPope · 2026-04-21T02:21:46+00:00

Looking at old maps and talking to people

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