The New Drift was the more modern and heavily utilized entrance to The New Mine . It was an extremally broad tunnel, broad enough for four horses to ride abreast. The tunnel began near the base of the mountain, at the end of a long, broad paved road that leads through the small village of Potsoi and toward the seacoast. The tunnel extended roughly a mile into the mountain at a gentle downward slope
The entrance and the first third of the tunnelcompletely collapsed during the second explosion.