Brian
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Cave and mine explorer, UK based. Photos for my memories, but sharing in case you like them
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over 1 year ago
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Miners Gala at Magpie Mine organised by PDMHS. Beautiful day and good fun
#mine
#peakdistrict
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about 1 month ago
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Classic trip underground for the evening
#mine
#cave
#speleo
about 1 month ago
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Entering the underworld
#tma
#14fears
#buried
#mine
#cave
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about 1 month ago
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Selection from a trip to a low fireset
#mine
#cave
#speleo
#tma
#buried
about 2 months ago
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Caustic reflections in a pool deep in a fireset mine
#mine
#cave
#tma
#buried
#speleo
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about 2 months ago
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Another crusty old mine, home to stemples galore!
#mine
#mineexploring
#cave
#speleo
#tma
#14fears
#buried
8 months ago
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Another trip into this old lead and zinc mine, beautiful formations and scenery
#mineexploring
#oldmines
#lead
#zinc
#ochre
#caving
#speleo
10 months ago
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Today I had a trip to the cool delights of an old Lead and Zinc mine.
#mine
#mineexploring
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#lead
#zinc
12 months ago
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Lost Johns Cave
#tma
#themagnusarchives
#magnusarchives
#theburied
#thefears
#magnuspod
#rustyquill
#srt
#singleropetechnique
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#threepeaks
#northyorkshire
about 1 year ago
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Oct 2021. Old mine in Derbyshire
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#mine
#mineexploring
#peakdistrict
#derbyshire
#chert
about 1 year ago
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Sep 2021. Wicksteed at War military show
about 1 year ago
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Jul 2021. Ancient lead mine full of black sludge
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#mine
#mineexploring
#lead
#srt
#singleropetechnique
#peakdistrict
#derbyshire
about 1 year ago
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Jun 2021. Pottering about looking for fossils
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#fossil
#peakdistrict
#derbyshire
about 1 year ago
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May 2025. SRT training in Derbyshire, nice and cool underground
#cave
#caving
#srt
#singleropetechnique
#peakdistrict
#derbyshire
about 1 year ago
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Jun 2021 Classic C17/C18 lead mine . Shafts, coffin levels and water
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#mine
#mineexploring
#srt
#singleropetechnique
#lead
#derbyshire
#peakdistrict
about 1 year ago
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May 2021. Large joint controlled cave that has been mined for lead
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#mine
#mineexploring
#srt
#singleropetechnique
#lead
#derbyshire
#peakdistrict
about 1 year ago
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Oct 2020. Classic cave with formations and a playful stream
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#peakdistrict
#derbyshire
#swallet
about 1 year ago
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Sep 2020, SRT rigging practice in a small natural cave. Fossils, ropes and dangling!
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#fossils
#crinoid
#srt
#singleropetechnique
#derbyshire
#peakdistrict
about 1 year ago
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19 April 2025. Exploring an old lead mine on rope, lots of fun but fighting gravity is hard work
#mine
#mineexploring
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#srt
#singleropetechnique
#peakdistrict
#derbyshire
#lead
about 1 year ago
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Aug 2020. C20 chert mine. Lovely explore in the cool dark
#mine
#mineexplore
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#chert
#derbyshire
#peakdistrict
about 1 year ago
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Aug 2020. N. Wales slate caverns. This was known as the slaughter house due to its poor safety record. Huge, atmospheric, stark and beautiful. LOTR-esque!
#mine
#mineexplore
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#northwales
#slate
about 1 year ago
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Jun 2020. Grotting about in a C17 lead mine, reworked upto C20 for fluorspar
#mine
#mineexplore
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#derbyshire
#peakdistrict
#pipevein
about 1 year ago
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May 2020. Post lockdown limited trip to Deep Hayes country park. Lovely spring day, so good to get out and about again
#staffordshire
#deephayes
#steppingstones
#waterfalls
#staffordshiremoorlands
about 1 year ago
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Mar 2020. Last trip before COVID lockdown to an old spar mine. Blast marks, fossils and cave pearls with some artefacts
#mine
#mineexplore
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#peakdistrict
#derbyshire
#spar
#fossils
#cavepearls
#blastmark
about 1 year ago
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Mar 2020. Details from a crumbling fluorspar mine, with some galena in parts.
#mine
#mineexplore
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#galena
#fluorspar
#cavepearls
#fungus
#stickythreads
#winze
about 1 year ago
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Mar 2020. Streamway cave in the Peak. Cold wet dangling, awesome 😎
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#peakdistrict
#derbyshire
#srt
#singleropetechnique
about 1 year ago
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Feb 2020. Decaying fluorspar mine. Shonky shafts, collapsing levels and rotting wood 😳
#mine
#mineexploring
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#fluorspar
about 1 year ago
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Feb 2020. N Wales slate caverns. Very LOTR! Massive chambers, artefacts and miles of passage
#mine
#mineexploring
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#slate
#northwales
about 1 year ago
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Today, Mar 2025. Quick trip to a part flooded Peak lead mine. Moist but great fun
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#mine
#mineexploring
#peakdistrict
#derbyshire
over 1 year ago
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over 1 year ago
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Feb 2020. Classic SRT in a Yorkshire stream pot.
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#yorkshiredales
#threepeaks
#northyorkshire
#srt
#singleropetechnique
over 1 year ago
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Jan 2020. Fossils and sediments in a Peak District swallet.
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#fossils
#peakdistrict
#derbyshire
#swallet
#sediments
over 1 year ago
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Jan 2020. Lost Johns, big SRT in an impressive maze of passages and shafts.
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#srt
#singleropetechnique
#threepeaks
#yorkshiredales
#northyorkshire
over 1 year ago
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Nov 2019. Lancaster Hole, amazing caverns passageways. Longest system in England.
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#threepeaks
#leckfell
#srt
#singleropetechnique
#lancashire
#northyorkshire
over 1 year ago
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Nov 2019. Abandoned lead mine in the Via Gellia. Deads, stemples passages and Tissue Moths
#mine
#mineexploring
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#lead
#peakdistrict
#derbyshire
over 1 year ago
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Nov 2019. Permission visit to Clive copper mines in Shropshire. Hosted in the New Red Sandstone of the Permo-Triassic, famous for Liesegang rings
#mine
#minexploring
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#copper
#shropshire
#clive
#liesegang
#permotriassic
#nrs
#newredsandstone
over 1 year ago
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Oct 2019. Huglith baryte mine with copper. Permission visit
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#mine
#mineexploring
#baryte
#copper
#malachite
#azurite
#shropshire
#shropshirehillsnationallandscape
over 1 year ago
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Oct 2019. Alum Pot, N Yorks. Classic streamway pot with awesome positions
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#srt
#singleropetechnique
#yorkshiredales
#northyorkshire
#threepeaks
#alumpot
over 1 year ago
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8 Feb 2025. Great wander round an old lead and fluorspar mine
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#mine
#mineexploring
#peakdistrict
#derbyshire
#lead
#fluorspar
over 1 year ago
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Feb 2022. Coniston copper mines, such an interesting and amazing place
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#mine
#mineexploring
#srt
#singleropetechnique
#copper
#coniston
#lakedistrict
#cumbria
over 1 year ago
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Feb 2022. Coniston copper mines. RR pics
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#mine
#mineexploring
#copper
#srt
#singleropetechnique
#lakedistrict
#cumbria
#coniston
over 1 year ago
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Oct 2019. Great Orme Copper Mines, dating back to the bronze age
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#mine
#mineexploring
#copper
#northwales
#srt
#singleropetechnique
#greatorme
over 1 year ago
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My pair of beauty's. Sadly the Pinzgauer 716M had to go but it was awesome. The Ninety lives on 😍
#4x4
#landrover
#ninety
#pinzgauer
#716m
over 1 year ago
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Jun 2019. Not all old mines are big and easy! Small wet and muddy, this C17/C18 lead working needs crawling in slop and scooping out of silted squeezes!
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#mine
#minexploring
#lead
#peakdistrict
#derbyshire
over 1 year ago
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Feb 2019. Bitterly cold day in the Long Churns. Lots of snow and ice. Pics by RR
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#yorkshiredales
#3peaks
#icicles
#waterfall
#longchurns
#selside
over 1 year ago
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Oct 2019. Nenthead, Cumbria. Vast abandoned lead and zinc mine with plenty of artifacts, false floors and shafts
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#mine
#mineexploring
#srt
#singleropetechnique
#nenthead
#cumbria
#lead
#zinc
#artifacts
over 1 year ago
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Sep 2019. N Wales slate caverns, large atmospheric and crumbly!
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#mine
#minexploring
#slate
#northwales
#cymru
#industrialarchaeology
#eryri
over 1 year ago
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Aug 2019. Peak district lead mine accessed on rope. C18 shafts and hand picked coffin levels
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#mine
#mineexplore
#lead
#srt
#singleropetechnique
#peakdistrict
#derbyshire
over 1 year ago
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Aug 2019. Small Welsh lead mine on several levels, working a hading vein
#cave
#caving
#speleo
#mine
#mineexploring
#northwales
#lead
#C19
over 1 year ago
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