“…it was because a peculiar light brought to view every detail of it. It was not the light of the sun, with his dazzling shafts of brightness and the splendour of his rays; nor was it the pale and uncertain shimmer of the moonbeams, the dim reflection of a nobler body of light. No; the illuminating power of this light, its trembling diffusiveness, its bright, clear whiteness, and its low temperature, showed that it must be of electric origin. It was like an aurora borealis, a continuous cosmical phenomenon…”

Jules Verne: “Journey into the Interior of the Earth”, translation by Frederick Amadeus Malleson (1877).

 

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Inclined tunnel to the empty fuel reserve

 

 

 

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  Stope, end of the drift

 

 

 

 

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Big stope filled with ectoplasm

 

 

 

 

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Cave 1425 towards west north-west

 

 

 

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Hellhole downwards

 

 

 

 

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Man cave 1242

 

 

 

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Big stope photographer