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good shots ken, i think your processing is fine.... looking forward to more :thumbup:
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I hear what you are saying! "Killhope" is the village in which the mine takes it's name from but pronounced "Killop". Actually the lead was the least of there problems with very few or maybe even no deaths related to lead poisoning (obviously I wasn't paying that much attention). In fact, the dust from the rocks along with working in 3 feet of water (in places) were the biggest killers!....UNTIL they started using explosives!.....They used steel rods which were hammered into the rock to create a hole for the powder......THEN they'd use another thinner steel rod to pack the powder into a hole, not hard to figure steel against the rock would create sparks. Apparently one guy packing the powder in the hole had the thin steel rod blown out and upward under his jaw up into his mouth, entering his brain and exiting the top of his skull......At that time brain surgery was a little tricky, so they just cut the top and bottom off this steel rod so it didn't protrude....he lived a normal life (apparently) for another four years until he died from a chest infection!drdan said:Is a lead mine really named "killhope"? Seems ironic considering the poisonous attributes of lead. I imagine the old time lead miners had some problems.