18 minutes agoWorking a mile underground
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)There are no fewer than 270km of galleries in the Stanterg mine in Mitrovica, where there are jobs every day for about 350 miners, working there in the mine. To make ends meet by means of a lamp placed on their heads, they daily walk more than 500 feet [800 m] underground for [...]
There are no fewer than 270km of galleries in the Stanterg mine in Mitrovica, where there are jobs every day for about 350 miners, working there in the mine. In order to make ends meet, through a lamp placed on their head, they daily walk more than 500 feet [800 m] underground to extract ore
The last words written in white, above the green door, built for decades at the Stantergu mine in Mitrovica. Here's the end that divides the “city” on earth with it underground.
A few feet inside are command booths that connect the earth to the ground through signals that are understood only by miners but not by others who visit it.
The small cabin in which two people work at first glance seemed to be part of the long abandoned museum, but in reality this still serves as the only link between miners working about a mile [1 km] underground with those who carry out the work over 800m above them, Zeri writes.
And so does the elevator, or cage, as the miners call it, built in 1954 and through which the miners descend into the mine daily, at first glance it seems frightening, but for those using it at least twice a day.
