A Competition for Mining Bugs!

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.

Comments

[Andrew]

Thames in New Zealand

Andrew J

12.24 Fri 28th Dec

[Andrew]

Or is it Waihi

[Steve Breyer]

I believe the location is Lead, South Dakota.

[Kent Herr.]

Beautiful picture! I would guess Coeur d'alene, Idaho. Go silver in 2008. Kent.

[Jeff J Silber]

The town is Cullinan in South Africa

[Del Funk]

The name of the gold mine is Barkerville, British Columbia, Canada.

[Ben]

I thinkk it is Waihi

[uuo]

WAIHI, NEW ZELAND

[Jim G.]

Fri. Dec. 28, 2007 @ 9:22 a.m. I think your mine is located in Pukewa, Waihi.

[Ray Buccino]

Looks like the Sunshine Mine at Kellogg, Idaho

[Doug Malcolm]

The Comstock Lode in Virgina city, Nevada.

[Glenn Barton]

The town is Silver City New Mexico

[bannockburn]

Bannockburn

[Reidar Henrik Plesner]

The town is Victoria, Creeple Creek, Colorado

[Doug]

Bannockburn Eastern Ontario

[Mike]

Wallace Idaho

[Walter Hunt]

I believe the town is Kellogg, Idaho.

[Dan K]

San Francisco Sutter's ??

[daveydog]

It's somewhere in Idaho. Hecla's mine perhaps?

[Clark Petersen]

Town: Cripple Creek/Victor, Colorado

Clark Petersen, Renton WA

[Larry Vital]

I think this picture is from the Empire Gold mine in Nevada City, California.

[Rand Freeman]

This is the Galena Mine in Wallace Idaho (Coeur D'Elene Mining District). Nice pic.
Rand Freeman

[MERLYN HEARN]

My guess was the Galena Mine in Wallace, Idaho
Dec. 28th, 2007 at 10:54 a.m.

[malcolm schulz]

ballarat....victoria Australia.....1.12am

[Barry McGeough]

Not quite like the Roman Lead mines in Portman Spain.