1,448,398
When I was much younger, my parents liked to vacation at Lake Tahoe. From there, it is not a long drive to Carson City, the Capital of Nevada. They have a museum that I loved to visit. The exit from the museum is down and through a simulated silver mine.
You did not provide context, Peter Mohylsky, Beach Broker, but I assume you are talking about the Colorado Tourist Mine Tragedy
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Joan Cox
Denver, CO
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Peter Mohylsky,
Miramar Beach, FL
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Brian England
Gilbert, AZ
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Ryan Huggins - Thousan...
Thousand Oaks, CA
4,988,176
I have been in a mine, but I don't think that there was any gold there, haha.
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Katina Hargrove 352-55...
Eustis, FL
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Candice A. Donofrio
Fort Mohave, AZ
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John Juarez
Fremont, CA
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
2,250,634
Watch the Discovery Channel on Friday nights and you’ll learn a lot about Gold Mining !
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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John Juarez
Fremont, CA
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Brian England
Gilbert, AZ
1,621,741
Yes, I've been in two goldmines:
1. Grass Valley, CA 👍
2. Knotts Berry Farm's Haunted Goldmine 😂
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Joan Cox
Denver, CO
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Ryan Huggins - Thousan...
Thousand Oaks, CA
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Thomas J. Nelson, REAL...
La Jolla, CA
1,262,707
I've never been in a gold mine but certainly wouldn't like the experience those souls in CO had.
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Katina Hargrove 352-55...
Eustis, FL
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Joan Cox
Denver, CO
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John Juarez
Fremont, CA
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
5,493,535
Simple answer, nix, nada, none!
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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John Juarez
Fremont, CA
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Brian England
Gilbert, AZ
275,011
Yeah, I'll just take someone's word that it's a cool thing to do and like their video. I'd rather play a round of golf.
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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John Juarez
Fremont, CA
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Peter Mohylsky,
Miramar Beach, FL
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Brian England
Gilbert, AZ
458,400
I have never been in a gold mine, coal mine or any other mine that I know of. After that Denver situation, I do not believe I will be entering one either! EVER!
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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John Juarez
Fremont, CA
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Brian England
Gilbert, AZ
1,539,794
None here. Walked through an abandoned one in Calico, but that's the extent.
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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John Juarez
Fremont, CA
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Brian England
Gilbert, AZ
1,102,460
No! However I have worked with mines before and been able to see or drop something down the shaft and that's as close as I'm getting!
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Brian England
Gilbert, AZ
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Ryan Huggins - Thousan...
Thousand Oaks, CA
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John Juarez
Fremont, CA
289,416
We did a field trip with the kids in our homeschool group to a gold mine. It was on the AZ/Nevada border.
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Katina Hargrove 352-55...
Eustis, FL
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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John Juarez
Fremont, CA
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
923,184
No, didn't realize it was a "thing". There was a bad accident in one mine just recently, a guide died.
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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John Juarez
Fremont, CA
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
2,851,803
I have done some cave exploring Peter Mohylsky, Beach Broker (Bronsons cave CA) where once in, our group shut off all our hand-held lighting & I have never been in pitch blackness before. For some, it was terrifying. Hand right in front of your face, even touching your nose, you couldn't see it.
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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John Juarez
Fremont, CA
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Richie Alan Naggar
Riverside, CA
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
3,432,801
Tragic accident taking the life of a tour guide.
A mine would not be my thing. I am more of a jump-out of an airplane - with a parachute, of course.
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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John Juarez
Fremont, CA
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
2,526,643
When I was very young I did some spelunking Peter Mohylsky, Beach Broker but I've never desired to be a troglodyte. I did like their music however.
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Joan Cox
Denver, CO
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John Juarez
Fremont, CA
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
942,966
No, I don't think so. I saw that story on TV last night. I did go up in some very old elevators in Germany and was a little uncomfortable.
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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John Juarez
Fremont, CA
933,508
Not gold mines, but yes to Luray Caverns, Skyline Caverns, some mines but not 1000' down. Crystal Grottoes is more my speed and next on my list. Only 30 minute drive from here. https://www.crystalgrottoescaverns.com/index.php
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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John Juarez
Fremont, CA
4,745,139
Can't say this has been a thought. . .
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Joan Cox
Denver, CO
6,698,702
Actually, I have, in South Dakota.
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
2,709,473
Going underground was not the problem; the mine did not collapse.
It was a mechanical failure of the elevator.
Tomorrow, millions of people worldwide will take elevators to the upper floors of skyscrapers, then will return down those same elevators. Is there a difference?
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
6,012,291
I would never go underground, and being in Colorado, it was tough listening to this accident.
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
3,214,209
I haven't, but I would. I mean I drive a car every day and there are plenty of fatalities daily in car accidents.
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
5,211,315
Well we just had a major accident of people going down in a gold my in Colorado and one dead and 12 people trap for 6 hours.
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
374,146
I panned for gold at Cripple Creek in Colorado, one of the events planned for us when I won a scholarship to study numismatics (coin collecting) in Colorado Springs as a young numismatist. My first job out of college was working for a foreign exchange, commodities and interest rate trading division of a large firm- and after a couple of promotions- I managed the Precious Metal Structured Derivatives and Special Business desk. I dealt with all the quirky non-generic types of trades- everything from global Central Bank purchases and sales, physical trades, gold miner hedging of their mining production, swaps, foreign tax shelters using gold, leases, consignments, swaptions etc. Once we had a barrel full of rhodium that was supposed to make a flight at JFK airport- but the Brinks driver got the instructions wrong- and tried to deliver the rhodium to my desk in Greenwich, CT. My team and I joked we should run away with the barrel- as it was worth a lot more than gold at that point. It was a fascinating job- but it was intensely stressful and paid crappy- but I learned a lot quickly. For all of that crazy- nope- neve went down in a gold mine. I did lots of deals with the largest miners- so I am sure I would have been welcome to visit the mines when I worked in that speciality...but no way was my management going to pay for that, lol.