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What is Mine-Explorer all about?

Mine-Explorer is the home of recreational mine exploration. This is your portal to a colossal online database of photographs (both modern and historical), maps, surveys and trip reports. Our thriving forum community brings people together to explore and document all U.K. disused mines, with a central focus on adventure, fun, and making friends. Everything you need is right here.

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Do you have any photos of mines? Surface Photos? Underground Photos? Old historical Photos or modern Photos? Photos from your exploration? Photos from your Granddad? Then they are extremely welcome on Mine-Explorer, we need every scrap we can get our hands on to swell the database and develop this important online historical resource. Documents like old leases, surveys, outputs and so forth are also extremely important! Registration is quick and easy!

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