Coniston copper mines

The original trip idea of simply walking into the mines was abandoned as we no longer had a novice. We did the first mine and I looked at the dig at the end, it looks like it's blocked or at-least unstable. We then hiked up and did the through trip, but did the extensions off the bottom of the pitch, that we did not push last time. The crawl broke through into many more passages, we only stopped exploring here when the only way on was an up pitch on rope from 1991 which Dan pointed out was as old as him. We then returned and continued the through trip as normal. We exited and as it had been raining quite a bit enjoyed a waterslide (road drain).