JeepHammer
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I've been consulting with a underground rock mine owner (tunnels) that closed in the 50s and has sit mostly abandoned since.
The state gave him a great deal since it was a slip, fall, falling rock hazard, and some idiots got lost/hurt inside, the cost was incredibly low.
It produced a specific type of limestone used in iron/steel production that changes in smelting process rendered obsolete after WWII.
It has a clean limestone spring that does about 35 gallons a minute, probably one of the reasons it went under, controlling water is a pain in the butt, and 35 GPM is a BIG spring.
The reservoir was built, drainage installed for overflow.
I was contacted for powering the place, solar electric since the land has no power and the owner wants to be as sustainable as possible.
Internally the median temp is 63°F, the roof doesn't need to be netted/bolted according to the mine engineers, and it has some really big, long chambers.
This thing has some tunnels 70+ feet tall at the top of the domed roofs, and it's wider than any mine I've ever seen (not that I've been in a lot of underground mines).
The south end is roughly triangle shape, slopes about right for low winter sun, and two 3foot wide (air?) shafts service that part of the surface.
He has installed about 1Mw of panels (5 Mw planned) but getting industrial panels, and everything else has been a challenge between tariffs & COVID it's been expensive & slow.
I know rock tunnel mines are in short supply since from the 50s everything is pretty much open pit, shelf blasting that removes everything, but this isn't the first underground mine that has been developed.
It's main business will be cool storage (food, documents, etc) but there are plans for private leases, one mushroom is sniffing around and many of the side tunnels (dead ends, no truck turn around) can be private storage.
60 to 120 feet of rock above the tunnel roof, self contained CLEAN water, comfortable temp year round...
Anyone seen stuff like this before, good places to 'Hole Up' if needed?
The state gave him a great deal since it was a slip, fall, falling rock hazard, and some idiots got lost/hurt inside, the cost was incredibly low.
It produced a specific type of limestone used in iron/steel production that changes in smelting process rendered obsolete after WWII.
It has a clean limestone spring that does about 35 gallons a minute, probably one of the reasons it went under, controlling water is a pain in the butt, and 35 GPM is a BIG spring.
The reservoir was built, drainage installed for overflow.
I was contacted for powering the place, solar electric since the land has no power and the owner wants to be as sustainable as possible.
Internally the median temp is 63°F, the roof doesn't need to be netted/bolted according to the mine engineers, and it has some really big, long chambers.
This thing has some tunnels 70+ feet tall at the top of the domed roofs, and it's wider than any mine I've ever seen (not that I've been in a lot of underground mines).
The south end is roughly triangle shape, slopes about right for low winter sun, and two 3foot wide (air?) shafts service that part of the surface.
He has installed about 1Mw of panels (5 Mw planned) but getting industrial panels, and everything else has been a challenge between tariffs & COVID it's been expensive & slow.
I know rock tunnel mines are in short supply since from the 50s everything is pretty much open pit, shelf blasting that removes everything, but this isn't the first underground mine that has been developed.
It's main business will be cool storage (food, documents, etc) but there are plans for private leases, one mushroom is sniffing around and many of the side tunnels (dead ends, no truck turn around) can be private storage.
60 to 120 feet of rock above the tunnel roof, self contained CLEAN water, comfortable temp year round...
Anyone seen stuff like this before, good places to 'Hole Up' if needed?
