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Print This Post | Topic: Other — December 28th, 2007

This is a competition for mining bugs which is free to enter and the winner will get a rather nice bottle of wine. All you have to do to win this fabulous prize is the following:

Name the town where this mine resides.

The above picture was taken very close to a once famous mine which is still producing handsomely today. The mines history dates as far back as 1878. Have you got it yet?

If we do not get a winner pronto, we will post another new clue every day or so making the competition easier to win. However there are some sharp eyed, well travelled professionals out there so take a shot at it, only one shot per day though!

Please add your answer in the form of a comment so that others can see the time and date of your entry just in case there is more than one correct answer.

Good luck.

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Thames in New Zealand

Andrew J

12.24 Fri 28th Dec

Comment by Andrew — December 28, 2007 @ 12:25 pm
Or is it Waihi

Comment by Andrew — December 28, 2007 @ 1:15 pm
I believe the location is Lead, South Dakota.

Comment by Steve Breyer — December 28, 2007 @ 2:50 pm
Beautiful picture! I would guess Coeur d’alene, Idaho. Go silver in 2008. Kent.

Comment by Kent Herr. — December 28, 2007 @ 2:51 pm
The town is Cullinan in South Africa

Comment by Jeff J Silber — December 28, 2007 @ 3:16 pm
The name of the gold mine is Barkerville, British Columbia, Canada.

Comment by Del Funk — December 28, 2007 @ 3:18 pm
I thinkk it is Waihi

Comment by Ben — December 28, 2007 @ 3:20 pm
WAIHI, NEW ZELAND

Comment by uuo — December 28, 2007 @ 3:20 pm
Fri. Dec. 28, 2007 @ 9:22 a.m. I think your mine is located in Pukewa, Waihi.

Comment by Jim G. — December 28, 2007 @ 3:23 pm
Looks like the Sunshine Mine at Kellogg, Idaho

Comment by Ray Buccino — December 28, 2007 @ 4:00 pm
The Comstock Lode in Virgina city, Nevada.

Comment by Doug Malcolm — December 28, 2007 @ 4:19 pm
The town is Silver City New Mexico

Comment by Glenn Barton — December 28, 2007 @ 4:19 pm
Bannockburn

Comment by bannockburn — December 28, 2007 @ 5:01 pm
The town is Victoria, Creeple Creek, Colorado

Comment by Reidar Henrik Plesner — December 28, 2007 @ 5:01 pm
Bannockburn Eastern Ontario

Comment by Doug — December 28, 2007 @ 5:03 pm
Wallace Idaho

Comment by Mike — December 28, 2007 @ 5:22 pm
I believe the town is Kellogg, Idaho.

Comment by Walter Hunt — December 28, 2007 @ 6:24 pm
San Francisco Sutter’s ??

Comment by Dan K — December 28, 2007 @ 8:18 pm
It’s somewhere in Idaho. Hecla’s mine perhaps?

Comment by daveydog — December 29, 2007 @ 12:44 am
Town: Cripple Creek/Victor, Colorado

Clark Petersen, Renton WA

Comment by Clark Petersen — December 29, 2007 @ 2:25 am
I think this picture is from the Empire Gold mine in Nevada City, California.

Comment by Larry Vital — December 29, 2007 @ 2:50 am
This is the Galena Mine in Wallace Idaho (Coeur D’Elene Mining District). Nice pic.
Rand Freeman

Comment by Rand Freeman — December 29, 2007 @ 4:00 am
My guess was the Galena Mine in Wallace, Idaho
Dec. 28th, 2007 at 10:54 a.m.

Comment by MERLYN HEARN — December 29, 2007 @ 4:23 am
ballarat….victoria Australia…..1.12am

Comment by malcolm schulz — December 29, 2007 @ 2:42 pm
Not quite like the Roman Lead mines in Portman Spain.

Comment by Barry McGeough — December 29, 2007 @ 7:23 pm
I think it´s the Drake Well, after the fire, in Pennsilvania

Comment by toni — December 29, 2007 @ 7:42 pm
How about Terlingua, Brewster County, Texas?

Comment by jacob — December 29, 2007 @ 7:52 pm
its a replica of the waihi poppet head ,Marta mine Waihi,New Zealand

Comment by Mike — December 29, 2007 @ 10:54 pm
Hmmm. I think San francisco.

Comment by glenn barton — December 30, 2007 @ 1:42 am
The Martha mine, located in the town of Waihi, 66 miles (110 kilometers) southeast of Auckland.

Comment by Cam Birge — December 30, 2007 @ 6:04 pm
looks like the panhandle area to me, Silverton Idaho.

Comment by Jordan Beesley — January 3, 2008 @ 2:55 am
Definately Waihi, New Zealand.
Got a few pictures from that crater that verify the previous posters.
Well done Andrew J!

Comment by Mark H — January 6, 2008 @ 10:19 pm

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