When dining at Maidens Hotel one evening (across the road from our Menindee room), another couple highly recommended the Daydream Mine tour at Silverton (and said we should have the scones)!We'd booked our tour soon after arriving in Broken Hill. Phone and internet reception weren't great at the mine, so we'd been asked to use cash rather than eftpos.
We like looking at mines and have seen various examples over the years. It's interesting the note the similarities and differences in method when comparing scale and what is being mined.
As kids at Yowah my brother and I were sometimes allowed to go underground (supervised). Some equipment on this tour was familiar from those days.
We did a surface tour first before entering the mine. I'm short (and sadly getting shorter) so don't usually have to duck in many places but needed to scooch a few times on the underground tour, so did wonder how tall the miners were!
We would definitely recommend the tour - it was a highlight of our time in the area. And have the scones!
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