Your bike in front of an abandoned mine

[Fredo76]

This should be do-able, I would think. Doesn't have to be gigantic, like this one...

The Lavender Pit copper mine in Bisbee, Arizona closed about 1975. Here's what it looks like without the fence:

The town of Bisbee is built on cliffs and in canyons and hosted a bicycle race that was pretty big for a while. Greg Lemond won the first one as a junior.

Any abandoned mines in the UK? ;-)

 

[sevenfourate]

Any abandoned mines in the UK? ;-)

Nice pics

Plenty of working and non-working Gravel Pits / Quarries. Which essentialy of course look the same.....

Although in England (UK ?) they are more likely to need to be pictured 'working'. As theres more often than not; an Environmental Policy to get the land looking like it once was - upon completion. Or as is probably more often the case - turn the excavation into conservation area, with lakes, nature walks etc.

 

[Fredo76]

Nice pics

Plenty of working and non-working Gravel Pits / Quarries. Which essentialy of course look the same.....

Although in England (UK ?) they are more likely to need to be pictured 'working'. As theres more often than not; an Environmental Policy to get the land looking like it once was - upon completion. Or as is probably more often the case - turn the excavation into conservation area, with lakes, nature walks etc.

Thanks!

I don't think filling the Lavender Pit is on the to-do list here...

 

[YMFB]

One of the mines I used to visit when it was working.

 

[sevenfourate]

Thanks!

I don't think filling the Lavender Pit is on the to-do list here...

I get involved with Engineering works at a number of local quarries. I did a couple of days at one last week…..

I’ll get a picture of a finished / re-landscaped one next time I’m there 😁