{"id":59084,"date":"2025-03-25T23:21:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T22:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=59084"},"modified":"2025-04-08T23:14:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T21:14:20","slug":"a-colossal-mine-in-the-united-states-that-has-a-large-green-lake-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/03\/25\/a-colossal-mine-in-the-united-states-that-has-a-large-green-lake-inside\/","title":{"rendered":"A colossal mine in the United States that has a large green lake inside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, we've seen quite a few videos of truly amazing underground mining operations here.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/06\/20\/the-dark-underground-world-that-exists-beneath-the-twin-cities-of-minnesota\/\">The dark underground world that exists beneath the Twin Cities of Minnesota<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/05\/04\/the-ghost-tunnels-of-the-old-hill-street-subway-station-in-los-angeles\/\">The ghost tunnels of the old Hill Street subway station in Los Angeles<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>A week ago, the YouTube channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ActionAdventureTwins\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Action Adventure Twins<\/a> <strong>published a video exploring a colossal mine<\/strong> with abandoned machinery inside. <strong>The authors did not indicate the location of this abandoned mine<\/strong>, nor even the country in which it is located, although judging by what we see in the video and from what I have been able to find out, it is in the state of Kentucky, in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The most striking thing about this enormous mine is that there is a large lake of greenish water inside.<\/strong> That color is not usually a good sign, but despite this, <strong>one of the protagonists of the video took a dip in that lake<\/strong>, something that some viewers have criticized in the comments of the video, pointing out that <strong>in cases like this it is better to take a test to measure the acidity or alkalinity of the water<\/strong>, in order to avoid unpleasant surprises due to the possible presence of fungi or toxic chemicals:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Massive Underground Complex With Strange Green Lake Inside\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NThaqZUQnmM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can see some screenshots from this video here. <strong>Here we see the exterior of this great mine<\/strong>, with two large entrances to its network of galleries.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54410755675_82e5e7192d_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The interior of the colossal mine.<\/strong> It's not as elegant and stately as Khazad-D\u00fbm, but at least there are no orcs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54410624293_d4a299767f_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A completely rusty old vehicle.<\/strong> My personal vehicle advisors admit they have no idea what model it is. If anyone reading this can provide any information, please post it in the comments.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54409506612_e0f38bb056_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The green lake inside the mine.<\/strong> I didn't think it was a very good idea to dip my feet in that greenish water, but taking a dip in it (as you can see in the video) should be listed with lots of arrows among the things you shouldn't do in a flooded mine.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54409506607_d178e108f9_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, we&#8217;ve seen quite a few videos of truly amazing underground mining operations here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19535,16880],"tags":[17070,18312,10431],"class_list":["post-59084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exploring-portada-eng","category-infrastructures","tag-kentucky","tag-undisclosed-locations","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}