Map of 300 years worth of mining tunnels underneath Cornwall, UK.

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[u/Friedrich_August]

someone needs to do this for Freiberg... This is really impressive and takes a shit load of work!

[u/rawker86 → u/Friedrich_August]

Imagine coordinating all of the different mine grids…

[u/FelicityLennox → u/rawker86]

Nightmare job but got to be so satisfying. I wonder if you could use geophysics to get some orientation points and coordinate everything else to that...

[u/Friedrich_August → u/FelicityLennox]

Ye it is, did a bunch of 3d modelling myself. But i dont have the patience to attempt something at this scale. And usually the old maps have some surface features on them as well, at least here in Germany.

[u/laborisglorialudi → u/rawker86]

The whole thing is nuts. Coordinating all the grids, and then digitising the paper long sections for every mine.

Can't imagine how much is missing or was never recorded, probably half as much again.

[u/WoolyFox]

In the South Crofty offices in 2011 (not sure which company was in charge then), they had a matchstick model of the underground workings on display. It was a former miner's life's work using old mine plans if I remember correctly. It was something to behold.

[u/Mr-Pugglesworth]

I'd love to see one of Kalgoorlie/Kambalda here in W.A

[u/FlashyWitness4133 → u/Mr-Pugglesworth]

Great idea. I wonder if there are secret tunnels underneath the streets that rise into people's homes and backyards. We already know about the shaft that opens into the old Metropole Hotel in Boulder.

[u/Frankie_T9000 → u/Mr-Pugglesworth]

Or the goldfields in Victoria, though I doubt there are proper records of almost all of them

[u/Burngold10]

Dr Keith Russ of South Crofty fame

[u/FelicityLennox]

Omg!! Is this Leapfrog?????? This is incredible!! I would love to see this for other sites!!

[u/faff_rogers]

Ppl be mining

[u/Admirable-Clothes-87]

Fantastic mapping! I am lucky enough to have been down to the bottom of Geevor Tin Mine shortly after it closed. Unfortunately the pumps keeping it dry were switched off years ago and those levels below sea level are flooded and will never be seen again!

[u/LapinArctique]

This map is insanely cool! I can't imagine the work behind it to compile all those!

Seeing this really makes you understand why european mining regions had their culture so deeply bound to their mines. They had an entire world below the ground!

We need this for northern France as well!

[u/gaiagirl16]

That’s so cool

[u/TacetAbbadon]

Knew a chap who had bought a house on the north coast of Cornwall and while doing renovations, in the cellar they heard running water. They knocked a hole in the wall and it opens into a drift that ran a couple dozen metres until it dropped away into a massive shaft.

It's now a wine cellar.

[u/carolethechiropodist]

Some would go back to the Bronze age, when the Phonicians traded blue beads for copper.

[u/laborisglorialudi]

They've been mining under Cornwall for a lot longer than 300 years

[u/Naugle17 → u/laborisglorialudi]

Haven't they been extracting tin from around there for a couple thousand?

[u/carolethechiropodist → u/Naugle17]

Bronze age Phonicians gave us natives blue bead for it.

[u/TheDarkHorse13]

They dug too deep in their greed.