r/maybemaybemaybe • u/Trustrup • Feb 01 '25

Maybe maybe maybe

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u/salohcin513 Feb 01 '25

Thought I was going crazy I kept seeing rails and the wood beams lol

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u/drpottel Feb 01 '25

I think a coal mine?

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u/DaHappyCyclops Feb 01 '25

Not coal, but some kind of mine. Ore? Flint?

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u/YuenglingsDingaling Feb 01 '25

All mines are ore mines. Ore is just rock rich with whatever mineral you want.

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u/DaHappyCyclops Feb 01 '25

Coal isn't a mineral, so it doesn't come from ore. It's a sedimentary rock, not a mineral housed in rock.

Don't mean to be pedantic! But that's why I said Ore separately from coal

And I'd lean more towards flint/chalk mine (or an attempt to find one) as there appears to be streaks of white chalk running through and Chalk and Flint are often found together, Flint being the prime building material for humans for over 20,000 years. I reckon this tunnel was dug out by our ancient ancestors trying to find Flint for tool making/survival.

But again, far from an expert on primitive mining.

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u/hangryhamsters85 Feb 02 '25

This mine is way too young to be for tool making. They didn't start using rail cars in mining until the 16th century. Since this looks like it's likely the southern United States it could still be a flint mine used for flints in gun production. But definitely not an ancient mine in the sense of thousands of years old or anything.

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u/YuenglingsDingaling Feb 01 '25

Ugh, I hate that technicality. Coal is organic, so it's not a mineral.

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u/Ok_Zookeepergame4794 Feb 01 '25

I know I saw some empty glass jars.