Chrustenická šachta, Mining museum and shaft in Chrustenice, Czech Republic.
Chrustenická šachta is a mining museum and shaft facility with underground tunnels descending to 426 meters deep across multiple levels. The site features exhibition areas displaying historical equipment and artifacts from the mining era.
The shaft opened in 1861 and operated until 1965, extracting roughly 8 million tons of iron ore. It was a major mining site in the Barrandien region during this entire period.
The mine's tunnels have appeared on screen: episodes of the TV series Zdivočelá země and Motel Anathema, the film Bumerang, Marek Najbrt's 2017 film Čertí brko and Kanye West's video for "Diamonds from Sierra Leone" were shot here. The flooded workings also serve divers for deep-diving training.
Visitors can take an underground train ride through accessible tunnels to explore the site easily. Permanent exhibitions are located near the entrance and provide additional context about the mining history.
The flooded lower levels, sealed off after the D5 motorway was built overhead, were later used by divers for deep-diving training. Visitors today see only the entrance adit, the hoist room of the first inclined shaft and the 8th level.
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