<div align="center"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Carbon Block;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 36pt;">PRISON PLANET</span></span></div><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Blue Highway Linocut;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 36pt;"><strong>Hell Frozen Over</strong></span></span></div><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Blue Highway Linocut;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 36pt;"><strong>The Mine - Below Ground</strong></span></span></div><br/><div align="center">(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5210/5233792265_9bb4f969a0_z.jpg)</div><br/>The vertical shaft drops down almost a kilometre. The lift is large enough to take two of the ore carts, one behind the other. It works on an old fashioned winch and counterbalance system, that being the least likely to go wrong in such a harsh environment. At the bottom of the shaft, the doors open onto a brightly lit tunnel, shored up along it's entire two hundred metre length with duraplaz planks and props. The light emanates from  places on the shoring where the duraplaz has been infused with a florescent chemical. At regular intervals there are small vents from which fresh air wafts, blown down from the surface.<br/><br/>At the end of the two hundred metres, though, the tunnel goes through a sweeping ninety degree turn and goes dark. The roof drops away, the shoring up ends and in the light that reflects around the corner, the end of the tunnel can be seen to be glistening a pale yellow. This is the start of the new vein of Gelumium.<br/><br/>Right up to the point at which the shoring stops, about half way around the curve, there are duraplaz rail tracks, laid on spacer bars. The tunnel walls are all smooth, between the props, as is the floor beneath the rails and the ceiling above the shoring beams. Even as the tunnel narrows, it narrows smoothly.<br/><br/>The shaft and tunnel have been cut using modern technology, laser drills capable of cutting through solid rock have made light work of the solid ice that forms the crust of The Cooler. These tools have now been withdrawn, and the miners, convicts sent to live out the rest of there miserable lives here, will be digging the Gelumium out with hand tools, axes and shovels.