#Mine Shaft

[zegalba]

The Diavik Diamond Mine, Canada.

[energylearns]

abandoned mine shaft

[gradienty]

Cod Gray Mine Shaft (#141414 to #323232)

[faggotfungus]

Sonnenberg coal mine by Konstantin von Gunten on 18 October 2022

[harlequinbutterfly-blog]

This is near Victor, CO at the same site that Rita the Troll is located.

[on-it]

[chaddavisphotography]

An abandoned mine shaft in South Dakota.

[gtaphotography]

[happyinmyhoodie]

Dust storms out here, painting the town red 🌪️

[aquiolla]

[usualstranger]

i was playing minecraft and found a mineshaft, so, of course, i explored it because that's a really easy way to find a lot of ores (and get treasure chests along the way). and i did find a lot of ores, including diamonds and gold but like the implications what was this ancient civilisation mining here??? why is there no way to the surface most of the time? like at some point theoretically there were people digging tunnels there, and the walls were filled with redstone, gold, lapis lazuli and sometimes diamond and they just kept going

they went straight ahead not pausing one second for the gold that was right there

what were they mining? what were they looking for?

the existence of spider generators suggest that maybe they were farming xp, or maybe something to do with the spiders' venom, but the only thing i know venom is used for is antivenom but all the other long lines of mining? why do that?

were they looking for something else? did it not exist anymore? or did they just want the rock

like just an army of people digging tunnels all over for precious rock and annoying gold getting in the way or did they just like to dig?

i feel like there's something there i'm not seeing

[karumakitsune]

I feel like we’ve all created our own mineshaft with pillars and everything. Maybe not the spawnable ones (obviously op built them but they look like the ones you can find), but I think this is a universal experience.

also really important addition, OP only uses stone picks:

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Mine Shaft Black (#1f1f1f to #000000)

[faggotfungus]

Wieliczka, Poland. Taken by Rj1979 on July 2007

[lilkitten11]

yeah you might be cool but you'll never be lush cave mineshaft cool

[double-dare-designs]

Mine Shaft