“The waves that cause the damage are the surface waves, undulating the ground. “Well, you’re probably safer in the mine during an earthquake,” Rosenthal explained. It’s hard also not to think about earthquakes.
You can’t help but imagine the feelings the miners must have had trudging underground to work every day. It’s an eerie feeling being underground in a mine, surrounded by damp rock bolstered by 12-inch square timbers, with only the feeble beam from a headlamp to light the way. It would take about 10 minutes to get down there by the hoist.”
“The mine operated at various levels, the deepest being 3,200 feet below the surface at the headframe. “The miners would have descended down to whatever level they worked by way of the hoists at the headframe, but the tour is a walking tour down a gentle descent,” Rosenthal said. Visitors then have to hang a tag on a hook, to be retrieved at the end of the tour, just as miners had to “check out” at the end of a shift to ensure no one was lost or missing underground.Įveryone then puts on a hardhat with a headlamp, after which Rosenthal leads the tour down a long, sloping walkway to the 65-foot level. Visitors who sign on for the Orphan Girl tour have to first visit the “dry,” where the miners used to shower and swap out of their sweat-soaked clothes before heading down the hill toward home.
“We’ve been leading tours of the mine down to the 65-foot level since 2011,” Rosenthal explained, “But expanded them to include the 100 foot level in 2017. Scott Rosenthal, the Anaconda Professor of Mining Engineering at Montana Tech, is one of a handful of tour guides who routinely take visitors 100 feet below ground to see the workings of the old Orphan Girl Mine. But it also happens to be the home of one of the country’s most unusual museums: The World Museum of Mining, tucked into a hillside behind the campus of Montana Tech in uptown Butte. Butte, Montana is famous the world over for a lot of things-the war of the copper kings, the pork chop sandwich, and the world’s most toxic lake, to name a few.
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