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[lazygun]

The linked article caught my interest only because of my experiences of DF. It's a wonderfully evocative description of the passages and mine workings.

Oh yeah, and the mine was made by dwarves! Well the writer believes it must have been, because he kept bumping his head on the low ceiling.

[Fayceless]

I went into a gold mine once...and hit my head on the low beams

[kiffer.geo]

I visited an active mine here in Ireland... Had fun driving around in jeeps about a kilometre below sealevel... The only thing I hit my head on was the rollbars on the trucks.

[nbonaparte]

i live a few miles from this gigantic hole in the ground. It's a very undwarvenly method of mining.

[Fien]

i live a few miles from this gigantic hole in the ground. It's a very undwarvenly method of mining.

I don't know...strip mining seems pretty dwarven to me. It's perfectly massive and destructive. What's wrong about it is that it isn't rigged to collapse in on itself with the flick of an unlabeled switch.

Or is it?

[Helmaroc]

i live a few miles from this gigantic hole in the ground. It's a very undwarvenly method of mining.

That is awesome. It looks like someone took a giant cheese grater right across the mountain range.

[nbonaparte]

Undwarven because they exposed it to the open air. but it is really cool. I can see

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from my window. They basically lopped off an entire mountain over the past century.

[mellonbread]

I once visited the Berkley Pit in Montana.  It's an flooded open pit mine. The water in it is so toxic it causes massive chemical burns on contact.

[nbonaparte]

Ouch. Arsenic and Sulfuric acid. I wouldn't want to swim in that.

[drvoke]

i live a few miles from this gigantic hole in the ground. It's a very undwarvenly method of mining.

That reminds me of the worldgen fortresses you can visit in Adventure Mode, honestly.

[Sunday]

Undwarven because they exposed it to the open air. but it is really cool. I can see

Spoiler: this (click to show/hide)

from my window. They basically lopped off an entire mountain over the past century.

Heh. I used to live there.

[Tsarwash]

There's a great, massive underground stone quarry near Bath, UK. Pretty much all of the stone used to build the city was dug from here. Still open to the public as far as i know. Lots of small rooms, piles of stone fallen from the ceiling, and stone pillars. You really could imagine a dwarf civilisation living there. (at least as a stop-gap to further depths.)

I have wiki'd it and fopund out that it even has an aquifer. next stop hfs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combe_Down_and_Bathampton_Down_Mines

[nbonaparte]

Undwarven because they exposed it to the open air. but it is really cool. I can see

Spoiler: this (click to show/hide)

from my window. They basically lopped off an entire mountain over the past century.

Heh. I used to live there.

Really? Where (I'm assuming you don't mind telling me because you're not there anymore. If I'm prying just tell me)?

[RemusShepherd]

I'm not crazy about mines, but I love mining equipment.  You have to admit that Bagger 288 looks like it was made by insane dwarves.