Missouri Mines Photo Album (Patreon)

For my birthday this year, I took a little day trip out to the Ozarks with a friend.  We stopped at the Missouri Mines site - a defunct galena (lead ore) mining facility handed over to the state parks system upon its closing - to explore and take some photos of this brick and metal wasteland.  I learned a lot while there and put together this little album in case anyone else (besides Wick) is interested.

Anyway, this was an exploration of the topside of a large Missouri mining operation.  Next, I hope to visit some of the mines themselves.  They're more like massive caverns in the limestone underground than like the narrow mine shafts one would tend to think of first, and apparently they're an impressive sight to behold.  I'll be sure to take more photos!