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John Juarez
The Medford Real Estate Team - Fremont, CA
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When I was much younger, my parents liked to vacation at Lake Tahoe. From there, it is not a long drive to Carson City, the Capital of Nevada. They have a museum that I loved to visit. The exit from the museum is down and  through a simulated silver mine.

You did not provide context, Peter Mohylsky, Beach Broker, but I assume you are talking about the Colorado Tourist Mine Tragedy

Oct 11, 2024 05:22 PM
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Brian England
Ambrose Realty Management LLC - Gilbert, AZ
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I have been in a mine, but I don't think that there was any gold there, haha.

Oct 12, 2024 04:47 AM
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Michael J. Perry
Fathom Realty - Lancaster, PA
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Watch the Discovery Channel on Friday nights and you’ll learn a lot about Gold Mining !

Oct 11, 2024 08:07 PM
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Thomas J. Nelson, REALTOR ® CRS,ABR,PSA,RCS-D, ePRO
Big Block Realty 858.232.8722 - La Jolla, CA
Serving Coastal San Diego, Veteran's & Seniors

Yes, I've been in two goldmines:

1. Grass Valley, CA 👍

2. Knotts Berry Farm's Haunted Goldmine 😂

Oct 12, 2024 07:57 AM
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Doug Dawes
Keller Williams Evolution - 447 Boston Street, Suite #5, Topsfield, MA - Topsfield, MA
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I've never been in a gold mine but certainly wouldn't like the experience those souls in CO had.

Oct 12, 2024 07:42 AM
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Wayne Martin
Wayne M Martin - Oswego, IL
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Simple answer, nix, nada, none!

Oct 12, 2024 04:28 AM
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Jerry Thomas-Construction Loans
Cranbrook Loans - Farmington Hills, MI
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Yeah, I'll just take someone's word that it's a cool thing to do and like their video. I'd rather play a round of golf. 

Oct 12, 2024 03:53 AM
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Michael Elliott
Fathom Realty - Burlington Township, NJ
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I was in a cave in Mexico once.   No gold mines.   Don't think I'd like that.  

Oct 12, 2024 02:45 AM
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J.R. Schloemer
Kentucky Select Properties - Louisville, KY

I have never been in a gold mine, coal mine or any other mine that I know of. After that Denver situation, I do not believe I will be entering one either! EVER!

Oct 11, 2024 07:33 PM
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Ryan Huggins - Thousand Oaks, CA
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None here.  Walked through an abandoned one in Calico, but that's the extent.

Oct 11, 2024 06:53 PM
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Candice A. Donofrio
Next Wave RE Investments LLC Bullhead City AZ Commercial RE Broker - Fort Mohave, AZ
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No! However I have worked with mines before and been able to see or drop something down the shaft and that's as close as I'm getting!

Oct 11, 2024 04:29 PM
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KAREN SANCHEZ
Reputable Realty - Apple Valley, CA
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We did a field trip with the kids in our homeschool group to a gold mine.  It was on the AZ/Nevada border.

Oct 12, 2024 08:04 AM
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Olga Simoncelli
Veritas Prime, LLC dba Veritas Prime Real Estate - New Fairfield, CT
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No, didn't realize it was a "thing". There was a bad accident in one mine just recently, a guide died.

Oct 12, 2024 06:49 AM
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Richie Alan Naggar
people first...then business Ran Right Realty - Riverside, CA
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I have done some cave exploring Peter Mohylsky, Beach Broker  (Bronsons cave CA) where once in, our group shut off all our hand-held lighting & I have never been in pitch blackness before. For some, it was terrifying. Hand right in front of your face, even touching your nose, you couldn't see it.

Oct 12, 2024 06:36 AM
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Kathleen Daniels, Probate & Trust Specialist
KD Realty - 408.972.1822 - San Jose, CA
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Tragic accident taking the life of a tour guide.  

A mine would not be my thing.  I am more of a jump-out of an airplane - with a parachute, of course. 

Oct 12, 2024 09:36 AM
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Ward County Notary Services - Minot, ND
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When I was very young I did some spelunking Peter Mohylsky, Beach Broker but I've never desired to be a troglodyte. I did like their music however.

 

Oct 12, 2024 08:38 AM
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Carla Freund
Keller Williams Preferred Realty - Raleigh, NC
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No, I don't think so. I saw that story on TV last night. I did go up in some very old elevators in Germany and was a little uncomfortable. 

Oct 12, 2024 10:58 AM
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Jeff Pearl
Samson Properties / LIC in VA - Lovettsville, VA
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Not gold mines, but yes to Luray Caverns, Skyline Caverns, some mines but not 1000' down. Crystal Grottoes is more my speed and next on my list. Only 30 minute drive from here. https://www.crystalgrottoescaverns.com/index.php

Oct 12, 2024 10:16 AM
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Can't say this has been a thought. . .  

Oct 13, 2024 03:30 AM
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Bob Crane
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Actually, I have, in South Dakota.

Oct 12, 2024 11:57 PM
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Fred Griffin Florida Real Estate
Fred Griffin Real Estate - Tallahassee, FL
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 Going underground was not the problem; the mine did not collapse.

It was a mechanical failure of the elevator.

 

  Tomorrow, millions of people worldwide will take elevators to the upper floors of skyscrapers, then will return down those same elevators.  Is there a difference?

 

Oct 12, 2024 02:22 PM
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Joan Cox
House to Home, Inc. - Denver Real Estate - 720-231-6373 - Denver, CO
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I would never go underground, and being in Colorado, it was tough listening to this accident.

Oct 12, 2024 01:38 PM
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Tammy Lankford,
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I haven't, but I would.  I mean I drive a car every day and there are plenty of fatalities daily in car accidents.

Oct 12, 2024 01:25 PM
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Will Hamm
Hamm Homes - Aurora, CO
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Well we just had a major accident of people going down in a gold my in Colorado and one dead and 12 people trap for 6 hours.

 

Oct 12, 2024 11:49 AM
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Adam Feinberg
Elegran - Manhattan, NY
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I panned for gold at Cripple Creek in Colorado, one of the events planned for us when I won a scholarship to study numismatics (coin collecting) in Colorado Springs as a young numismatist. My first job out of college was working for a foreign exchange, commodities and interest rate trading division of a large firm- and after a couple of promotions- I managed the Precious Metal Structured Derivatives and Special Business desk. I dealt with all the quirky non-generic types of trades- everything from global Central Bank purchases and sales, physical trades, gold miner hedging of their mining production, swaps, foreign tax shelters using gold, leases, consignments, swaptions etc. Once we had a barrel full of rhodium that was supposed to make a flight at JFK airport- but the Brinks driver got the instructions wrong- and tried to deliver the rhodium to my desk in Greenwich, CT. My team and I joked we should run away with the barrel- as it was worth a lot more than gold at that point. It was a fascinating job- but it was intensely stressful and paid crappy- but I learned a lot quickly.  For all of that crazy- nope- neve went down in a gold mine. I did lots of deals with the largest miners- so I am sure I would have been welcome to visit the mines when I worked in that speciality...but no way was my management going to pay for that, lol. 

Oct 15, 2024 11:26 PM