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Top 10 Underground Mine Tours in America

Ten places we think are worth the trip, hand-picked, not an exhaustive list, just a place to start.

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World Museum of Mining

World Museum of Mining

Butte, MT

Underground tour of the Orphan Girl gold and silver mine, plus an 1899 mining camp museum

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Sierra Silver Mine Tour

Sierra Silver Mine Tour

Wallace, ID

A working silver mine tour led by retired miners in Idaho's Silver Valley

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Soudan Underground Mine State Park

Soudan Underground Mine State Park

Soudan, MN

Ride a cage elevator half a mile down Minnesota's oldest and deepest iron mine

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Exhibition Coal Mine

Exhibition Coal Mine

Beckley, WV

Ride an authentic mine car through a real coal mine with a retired miner as guide

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Lackawanna Coal Mine Tour

Lackawanna Coal Mine Tour

Scranton, PA

Descend 300 feet into an anthracite coal mine that operated for nearly a century

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Kentucky Coal Mining Museum

Kentucky Coal Mining Museum

Benham, KY

Underground mine tour and museum in a former coal company town

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Sterling Hill Mining Museum

Sterling Hill Mining Museum

Ogdensburg, NJ

A former zinc mine with a blacklight tunnel of fluorescent minerals

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Adventure Mine

Greenland, MI

An 1850s copper mine on the Keweenaw Peninsula, explored by ladder, rope and cart

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Delaware Copper Mine

Copper Harbor, MI

One of the oldest copper mines on the Keweenaw Peninsula, self-guided underground tour

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Kansas Underground Salt Museum

Kansas Underground Salt Museum

Hutchinson, KS

The only museum in North America 650 feet inside an operating salt mine

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