Nancy Drew: Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon Hints

A Note About Mines

  • It's a shame real mines aren't this cool, with lights, working machinery, and treasure at the end. In real life, abandoned mines are pitch black, clammy, dirty, boring holes in the ground that were abandoned because there wasn't any gold left, just rocks. They have floors that collapse, and ceilings that collapse, and tunnels that don't go anywhere except straight down, and patches of poisonous gas, and unexpected slimy pools of arsenic-filled water, and bats that fly in your face, and black widow spiders, and rattlesnakes. And if none of those things gets you, it's very easy to get lost, and your cell phone doesn't work underground, so if you're lost you're just ... *lost.* People are killed exploring abandoned mines every year, and most of them are kids. Yes, really.

    If you want more information on what abandoned mines in Nevada are really like, here's something from their Department of Minerals: http://minerals.state.nv.us/forms/aml/dangersinandaround.pdf