In a few people at the company released a blurred, but steamy, the first Saturday of the April 2011 on the western edge of High Ridge, the area of \u200b\u200brogue rocks, pyrite mine tunnel, turn the Death on the Road and the Sudetic toward Rezerwatowi "Crocuses" on the slopes falling out of a turn toward the valley of the Little Stone.
Walking route, that's, Saturday's excursion tours on the Start-up before the season wandering. And here's the first big surprise met us in these tunnels, surprise and beauty of winter. Anyway, let the pictures speak.
Are not those wonderful ice formations, some alive, like a former miners, and perhaps loved by Przemyslaw Wiater Walloons ...? It was he who in his "Walloon book he wrote:
that occurs in the Black Ridge Mountains, Jizera pyrite, iron sulfide polymorphs, resembled the noblest of metals, for which he was the former called fools gold. The discovery of pyrite deposits have probably Walloon gold seekers, minerals and precious stones from the nearby Old Village Glass.
first documented information on the extraction of larger amounts of pyrite hornfels okruszcowanych from the mine located on High Ridge Izerski above rogue rocks, derived from 1530 to the location of the mines has helped to identify mineralogical Walloon and the small distance from the village, holding the glass by a former steel mills, industrial traditions. In 1545, were designed to build a new mine, which was established about 1550, in 1553, is mentioned witriolejnia great effort cost the owner founded - label of different acids, mainly sulfuric acid, made from processed local pyrites. At the end of the sixteenth century in the mine on the slopes of the High Ridge 60 miners were employed. During the Thirty Years War and pyrite mine witriolejnia stop working.
The excavation can be read even here :
Without a doubt one of the most interesting relics of the mining industry in Poland! Object of considerable size, consisting of several excavations, which were once, like the above-described groove, formed a single, large pyrite mine. Because the sidewalks, and mining chamber drążono very near the surface, there was a sizeable obrywu ceiling in the central part of the mine. The most interesting part of this team is a huge chamber excavation mining in the western parts have been excavated in a powerful vein pirytonośnej. Its layout resembles a big gap on the 40m long, 10m wide and and the 9m high at the entrance, gradually wyklinowującą to about 1.5 m and 1m wide in the final batch. We wowed the rock bridge, left by the miners in the middle of the chamber, which was to prevent the tightening up of the excavation. A similar role of horizontal wooden stamps. On the left side of the entrance walkway dug several meters in length survey (1.0 x 1.5 m).
The tunnels have spent a lot of time because I regretted having to keep up with them: for several days after the ice tumors did not remain even a trace, no, may be some sizeable puddles at the bottom of the pit ...
And the flowers? Well, after another several minutes łazęgi reached with difficulty to the Reserve. Crocus - and yes - they were, in an amount of maybe 20 pieces. At least the ones that glowed longer beautiful flowers. But the reserve could not cover the impression they made on us pyrites tunnels.
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