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⛏ Today is #MinersDay!

This giant cavern was created by Bronze Age miners extracting huge quantities of copper ore from Great Orme (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿) over 3,500 years ago! A large cavern at Great Orm...
For 200 years, Bronze Age miners extracted a copper bonanza from the Great Orme Mines. It supplied large parts of Britain, and metal from the mine even found its way as far as Germany and Sweden.

📷: Where the metal went Image
After this copper boom, the mine was abandoned for millennia until it was rediscovered in 1987.

📷: The mine today Image
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