Spooky spaces underground: abandoned American iron mines

IronMiners.com has gorgeous tours of abandoned American iron mines.  These are gloomy, lovely, spooky places.

And I love the language of these underground zones.  For example, about the entrance to a New York mine started before the Revolutionary War, I learn that "entrance" is the wrong word.  Say "adit" instead:

After approximately 35 feet, the adit meets the stope. A water filled winze with log cribbing stands across from the adit within the stope. The mine is said to be as deep as 70 feet. This winze accesses a lower stope.

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