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	Wood Mine
Wood Mine is probably the most-visited mine on the Edge and has a good variety of mining and geological features. It was mostly worked between about 1860 and 1875.

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Wood Mine photos
Ceremony when Wood was reopened	Wood mine manhole entrance	Building the adit entrance	Adit entrance	Inside entrance
In Wood Mine adit (John Kyle)	At the end of the adit	The spring in Spring Passage	Sand Cavern	Sand Cavern from the southern end
Mineralisation in Sand Cavern	Passage to Chain Steps	Chain Steps	Rabbit Caverns	Rabbit Caverns
Stope at the Blue Lake junction	Blue Lake	Old picture of Blue Lake	The Hough Level in Wood Mine	A candle in the lower levels
Roadworks Shaft	Roadworks shaft, flooded	Digging a crawl	Canal Turn	Winch at Canal Turn
Stump Chamber from Key Chamber	Stump Chamber	Crocodile Crawl	Bridge at North End Chambers	Upper North End Chambers
North Boundary Fault	Lower North End Chambers	Reconstructed air door	First Green Waterfall	Second Green Waterfall
Third Green Waterfall	A backfilled passage	Crawling	Junction Shaft	Junction Shaft
Shaft in Sand Cavern	Shaft in Sand Cavern	A shothole in NE Chambers	A shothole in Sand Cavern	Adit entrance
Putting in a new bridge	Second green waterfall	Sand Cavern	Wiggly Worm	North Boundary Fault
Link to Hough Level
The 'Temple'	Pillar and Post Series	Pillar and Post Series