3c. Underground Mining Photo Gallery
“It’s dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew, Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few, Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines… It’s dark as a dungeon way down in the mines.”
Click or tap on each image to view photos of underground mining in North Dakota.
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“A foreman would grab your arm. If you had a sleeve full of muscles, you could get a job as a miner.”
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Horses and mules lived underground. They would go blind if they ever saw the sun.
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Underground horse stables
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The Joy loaders made underground mining more efficient
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Eventually, the mules were replaced by little engines.