{"id":1823,"date":"2008-03-14T11:23:36","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T19:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/03\/14\/expanded-black-diamond-mines-tours\/"},"modified":"2008-03-14T11:27:55","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T19:27:55","slug":"expanded-black-diamond-mines-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/03\/14\/expanded-black-diamond-mines-tours\/","title":{"rendered":"Expanded Black Diamond Mines tours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>East Bay Regional Parks is having an open house April 5-6 for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebparks.org\/news\/03142008\">the silica\/sand mine tours at Black Diamond Mines Regional Park, <\/a> where you&#8217;ll be able to go 810 feet into the mine rather than a mere 400, which was as far as folks could go last season. The open house is noon to 4 p.m. both days. Click the link for more details. I wanted to check out the mines earlier this year but they&#8217;re not open in the winter. Should be lots of wildflowers happening up there too, with all that open grassland and sunny hillsides. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a picture down into one of the shafts at Black Diamond Mines (not part of the tour, I presume): <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/2333595752\/\" title=\"Mine shaft by busybeingborn, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2334\/2333595752_e316b9ce42.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Mine shaft\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Black Diamond Mines is around here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=37.9585%C2%B0+-121.863%C2%B0&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=p&amp;s=AARTsJp_a50b2cQIepmk0FAjmsMl_Rnkrg&amp;ll=37.973703,-121.854515&amp;spn=0.047362,0.085831&amp;z=13&amp;iwloc=addr&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe> <small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=37.9585%C2%B0+-121.863%C2%B0&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=p&amp;ll=37.973703,-121.854515&amp;spn=0.047362,0.085831&amp;z=13&amp;iwloc=addr&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>East Bay Regional Parks is having an open house April 5-6 for the silica\/sand mine tours at Black Diamond Mines Regional Park, where you&#8217;ll be able to go 810 feet into the mine rather than a mere 400, which was&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/03\/14\/expanded-black-diamond-mines-tours\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}