Sam on Svalbard

We visited Mine 7 as a small field trip in our Geology course, just before we started revising for our exams. It was amazing to go into a working mine. The mining methods are much more modern than the ones that I saw used in Mine 3. Its much more mecanised and they probably mine the coal much much faster than they used to. As you can see we all looked great in our overalls and hard hats!!