It’s dark, hot, musty, and noisy. Other than that, working at an underground mine site is a piece of cake.
We recently spent a week traveling to Hecla Mining Company’s gold property, Casa Berardi, to shoot both photos and film footage. Located in Quebec roughly 500 miles northwest of Montreal, Casa sits in a remote area where cell service doesn’t exist and English is mixed in with a lot of French. Above, photographer Jim Van Gundy (left) watches Jim Swoboda of ILF Media prep a shot.
Oh, I almost forgot: Don’t load up on the coffee in the morning, because you won’t find any port-a-potties underground either.
