Thread: Wanna see a dished stone?...

Originally Posted by Chrisl

Wow, please give us a report, Bart. That sounds awesome. I've conversed back and forth with Rob a bunch of times. He's a great guy to deal with. I've also purchased some stones from him. Please take pics of the coticule room; shelves and shelves of finished coticules!

Very cool. Have fun and tell Rob we all said hello.

Chris L

The battery of my camera is charging as we speak.
We're doing a 3-day hike, all in sign of coticule industrial archeology. Our visit to the last operational mine is one of the highlights of our "coticule-tour". There are several closed down mine-sites in the vicinity (I've attached a map with just a few of them). Those mines were not closed down because they were depleted, only because it was no longer economically reasonable to exploit them. We're hoping to find out how "closed" they really are. I know of a caving club that has done some training over there, and there's a Dutch guy, that apparently relocated to the area, who has done some exploring of his own. I 've e-mailed him, but sadly he never answered back. Good photographic footage of a typical coticule mine can be found here: http://tchorski.morkitu.org/1/coticule.htm
Please excuse me for hiking your thread a bit. I'll post a full report in a new thread, after we get back.

Best regards,
Bart.