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Cathedral Mine This is an old Gypsum mine from the 1950's. Some time in the early 1960's the government stashed a bunch of Civil Defense rations in the bottom of this mine. I visited this mine with Dezrat from the California Mine Explorers and "Wild Bill" and Joe from Wild Bill's Ghost Town Adventures.

Photo does no Justice to the size of this opening.	Before going in.	Looking Back up the hole. This entrance is about 60 feet high.

Looking way up	At the bottom of the entrance hole.	Track still on the floor

An open can of "Survival Biscuits"	Date of package "February 1962"	Survival Supplies

This is a half buried ore bucket	This is an ore cart elevator. Park the cart on this section of track and it can be lowered.	A section of back filled stope.

Wooden ladder down to a conveyor belt.	Section of conveyor minus the belt.	The "Cart Flipper"

Ore carts are pulled in here, secured and dumped out onto the conveyor belt.	More track in the mine	At about 400 feet down and over 1/2 mile over from where we entered, we hit the survival items.

"Drinking Water" as far as the eye can see.	More water	This photo was taken at about the 600 foot level, this is an ore shoot where the conveyor lets out

Latter up to a cat walk	One of the 4 ore chutes

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