From: null@void.com   
      
   "Jim Wilkins"  writes:   
   > ...   
   > Did the US gold mine elevator accident have any effect on your mining   
   > museum activities? I was careful to limit what I suggested.  ...   
      
   I hadn't even followed the story.   
   I'd vaguely heard of it, but wasn't retained and otherwise mentioned.   
   I'd study the explanation of what happened when it emerges.   
      
   Thing is, keeping historic mines open is inherently risky and   
   challenging.  I've seen in video how much effort various preserved mines   
   in the US have to go to.  eg. there's one on the Comstock Lode, where   
   some of the almost unique features of mining that lode are seen.   
      
   So occasional mishaps are going to happen.   
      
   The value to society of seeing where our forebearers scraped a living is   
   so very very high.   
   So the risks while known are accepted.  Someone somewhere will be in the   
   wrong place at the wrong time - but to lose contact with forebearers and   
   continuity is a "no way" for our societies.   
      
   "Our" shaft is only about something like 100ft deep.  Is haulage skip   
   only - no person riding.  We use a ladder shaft to get in / out of mine.   
      
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