La Mine, Haute Vienne, France 01/09

[VWPowered]

iffy pics as my camera playing up..
used to mine tin and tunsten although listed for uranium

some pics..

from the side of the road, its clearly visable but unable to tell its disused..

beautiful arches everywhere..

lucky i didnt need the loo... our options were limited..

winch of some sort from old Renault 4CV...

Cars bits everywhere mainly Renault although this Citroen Ami and Simca Aronde ended there life's here, although no roads lead here anymore..

my pic of the day..

brick built pit full of rubbish..

one of the many rotten shoots

the main building from up top...

most of the roofs looked like this ever tiled or untiled..

dunno what it is maybe a grinding machine of some sort..

main building from the bottom looking up..

piles and piles of this stuff some of the powder was bright red but most of it this colour.. to touch it was finer than plaster..

someone been before... dossers..

should be on the outside not the inside...

can you see it yet....

impressive, its very tall..

couldnt get a good pic of the mine sadly... very tight to get internal pics..

but it was deep, managed to count to 12 before a splash...

dont look up...

more pics here

we then stopped at Vaurly to see the church..

up one steep hill...

looking down

and up...

it was shut so couldnt find anything else out but it did have a paramic view, but as it was misty all day so i didnt take pics..

sad

but still an impressive church.. but wouldnt want to be the pastor walking up and down that ruddy hill..

enjoy

 

[VWPowered]

damn should be 01/09 soz

 

[Neosea]

Cool explore, thanks for the photos

 

[spacepunk]

Looks good. Nice first shot.

 

[Foxylady]

Lovely looking set of buildings. Looks like a good place to have a decent mooch around.
The church is a nice bonus too.

 

[Silhouette]

Thanks for posting these - if you remember our paths crossed elsewhere as I love that area (you are a little west of my stamping grounds if I remember).

I've nailed the Chapel - eastern end of the Monts de Blond? Are the mines close by? The uranium mines I remember (and can find on a map) are near Ambazac, to the east.

 

[VWPowered]

yes do remember its just north of vaurly and can be seen on most maps just north on close up

will pm the exact location now, i love this way but not explored that much from your end we've found afew things within afew hours different stuff empty chateau's/WW2 bunkers and stuff, and now just purchased a camper as with the misses and 2 girls, it's abit hard exploring these places but i need fear no more

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=45.784776&lon=0.760271&z=10.8&r=0&src=msl

my location

 

[Silhouette]

Got the PM thanks . You can see the spoil before you zoom in! I had guessed wrongly where it was - purely from the name of THIS town.

I have a contact who might well know if there is a connection to the geology that produces tin/tungsten/uranium - I'll give him a shout.

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=45.784776&lon=0.760271&z=10.8&r=0&src=msl

my location

I'm not jealous you know, not one bit.....

 

[VWPowered]

yeah took me some time to actually find it on the map,

the actual mine you cant go down its full of water which is a shame but still great to have a mooch around, took us ages to find the mine building you'll see the tip of it in the trees when you first get in

that said there is ment to be lots of mines around here, i'm still searching for them