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PILLO MINE

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Poum, 98826Poum, New Caledonia
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This mine was exploited at the time by convicts, before falling into ruin. It all began in 1884, when Johnny Higginson bought the concession. The open-pit mining of copper lasted one year, until the engineer Louis Pelatan opened the way to a new type of extraction: the steam core drilling system, which made it possible to dig down to 199 m below sea level. Nine galleries were then built in the subsoil, but the fall in prices led to successive takeovers, and then to the final closure of the site in 1931.

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Mise à jour infos !
Pour visiter la mine, il faut appeler la mairie de Poum ou d'Arama qui vous donnera le numéros de la personne possédant les clefs ! (Mr Sangjil avec des fautes d'orthographe, qui habite proche d'Arama...)

le repère sur google map est :
-20.2985042, 164.2589743

Lorsque vous êtes au portail, il suffit de suivre le chemin, lorsque ce dernier croise un lit de rivière et semble se diviser en deux il faut prendre à gauche malgré la végétation !

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