Entered this somewhat dogey mine after trying to find the lower adit, as we were thinking of doing a through trip to it. We entered on level which starts off with a gate and an awkward climb to get over it before the entrance adit leads through to the main lode with a deep hole in the floor, which had traverse lines. Holes in the floor would become a theme of this mine, with holes of various widths appearing on the right, most of which anywhere from 10m to 60m deep/bottomless! As we went on through we reached collapses which forced us a bit too close for comfort to these holes. Part way along we went up 10m or so of ladders to an upper level taking in a daylight shaft to the surface which we estimated to be 80m deep.
We passed a giant large gimble and pump rod kind of device before finding a pitch to a higher level about 15m high. This led to a chamber and a slope up to even higher workings. As I was the only one with SRT kit I was the only one to go up, so did not go too far.
Back down we continued along the dogey main level passing even more holes, before a short traverse which was thankfully roped across some rails where Byron left us. After some short flat out crawls through collapses we reached a ladder way, which later we climbed down for 30m or so before we got bored. Straight on eventually led to a short 5m ladder up and a section where the floor was completely missing and there was no rope, or even anchors that had their nuts intact.
We headed out and unfortunately decided against the through trip as time was getting on and we did not know how long it would take or even if it would be possible to get through, though I was happy to find out, I was not driving.
