Mine Collection (page 10)

SAFETY LAMP IN MINE
Safety lamps, invented by Davy in England and modified by Mueseler, in use in a French coal-mine Date: 19th century

Alum Mine at Hurlet near Glasgow 1843
Interior of an underground alum mine at Hurlet near Glasgow. The miners, with candles attached to their helmets, dig into the rocks and cart away the mineral in wheelbarrows

DANNEMORA IRON MINE
Iron mines of Dannemora, Sweden Date: 1830s

IRON MINE
Mining iron ore Date: circa 1820

BUT IS IT MINE ?
- Yes, very nice - but whats to prove its mine ? Date: 1909

MINE, NORTH SEA
German warships destroy a mine with gunfire in the North Sea Date: February 1940

MINES / NORDMARK, SWEDEN
Iron mine at Nordmark, Sweden Date: 1830s

MINES / DANNEMORA, SWEDEN
Iron mine at Dannemora, Sweden Date: 1830s

MINING ENGINEERS / 1869
A consultation of engineers in a French mine Date: 1869

BLANZY MINE, FRANCE 1867
Exterior of mine at Blanzy, France Date: 1867

BETHUNE MINE FRANCE 1861
Exterior of a coal mine in Bethune, France. Date: 1861

1869 / COAL MINE / BORING
Boring operations in a French mine Date: 1869

FRENCH COAL MINE 1867
Interior of French mine. Date: 1867

Trapper seated 1867
TRAPPER AND PUTTERS A small boy opens and closes the trapdoor while another child pushes a laden wagon along a narrow gallery. Date: 1867

Pits and pitmen - night-shift 1871
Night-shift down the pits, half an hour before the shift starts at five-thirty in the evening, the miners meet on the pit-heap for a chat by a fire, this engraving was took from Seaham

Canada - Ontario - Mining Town - South Lorrain - Keeley-Jowsley-Wood Company Ore House - Silver Mine interior with two men and guard dog. Date: circa 1908

Abandoned Levant tin mine, near Pendeen, Cornwall, England
The abandoned Levant tin mine, near Pendeen, Cornwall, England. The mine is now renovated, owned by The National Trust and turned into a museum

Former tin miner in the abandoned Levant tin mine, near Pendeen, Cornwall, England. He leans on some of the derelict machinery

Alfred Gee, one-man coal mine, Cheshire - 5
Alfred Gee pushes a coal truck to the entrance of his one-man coal drift mine in Cheshire, England. Mr Gee did not wear a miners helmet, and used a carbide (acetylene) lamp in the mine Date: 1971

Alfred Gee, one-man coal mine, Cheshire - 4
Alfred Gee working his one-man coal drift mine in Cheshire, England. Mr Gee did not wear a miners helmet, and used a carbide (acetylene) lamp in the mine Date: 1971

Alfred Gee, one-man coal mine, Cheshire - 3
Alfred Gee working his one-man coal drift mine in Cheshire, England. Mr Gee did not wear a miners helmet, and used a carbide (acetylene) lamp in the mine Date: 1971

The Barrack Field, Woolwich Barracks, southeast London Date: circa 1909

The Duchess of York at the Abercynon Colliery, South Wales - she is being shown a Davy Safety lamp (and how it works) by one of the miners Date: 1933

The Simmer and Jack Proprietary Gold Mines - South Africa
The Simmer and Jack Proprietary Gold Mines - east of Johannesburg, South Africa. The company which was founded in 1887 by the German August Simmer and Scotsman John Jack

Miners at Geevor Tin Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall -- leaving at the end of the last shift, before the mine was closed. Date: circa 1986

Queen Elizabeth II visiting Geevor Tin Mine, Cornwall
Queen Elizabeth II visiting the Geevor Tin Mine at Pendeen, Cornwall, to see the Victory Shaft development, 28 November 1980. Date: 1980

Ten views of Benoni, Transvaal, South Africa
Ten views of Benoni, a gold mining town in Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa -- Market Avenue, general view of mines, Market Square with magistrates courts, Post Office and Standard Bank

Knox Street, Germiston, Transvaal, South Africa
Knox Street, Germiston, a gold mining town in Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa. Date: circa 1910

Angelo Gold Mine, East Rand, Transvaal, South Africa
Angelo Gold Mining Company, The Avenue, near Boksburg, East Rand, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa. Date: circa 1905

Kings Hotel, Boksburg, Transvaal, South Africa
Kings Hotel, on the banks of the lake, Boksburg, a gold mining town in Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa. Date: circa 1905

Coal Mines, Coalisland, Co. Tyrone - a view of the coal mine buildings beside a railway track. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Tyrone; Coalisland). Date: circa early 1900s

Coal mining. Belgium
Coal mining. Herscheuse Mining. Quaregnon County. Belgium. Colored engraving from 1884

Breaker boy eating during a food break at a coal mine in Kingston, Pennsylvania, USA Date: circa 1900

MET DE BLES, Henri. Copper mines
MET DE BLES, Henri (1480-1550). Landscape with coppper mines. Detail of the foundry. 16th century. Renaissance art. Oil on wood. CZECH Rep.. Prague. National Gallery in Prague

Cones of salt - The Great Salt Mines, Oasis of Bilma, Sahara
Cones of salt obtained from The Great Salt Mines, Oasis of Bilma, Niger, Sahara. Taken during the expedition led by Captain Angus Buchanan to the Sahel region of the Sahara in 1922-23

Coal Mining 1906
Hewers working at coal face on a thin seam, Frog Lane Pit, Coalpit Heath, near Bristol, 1906 Date: 1906

Coal mining with a horse
Coal mine in Hoganas.South of Sweden. A horse is lowered down a coal mine shaft

Derelict Tirpentwys Colliery, Pontypool, South Wales
View of the derelict Tirpentwys Colliery near Pontypool in South Wales. The foreground is littered with pieces of wood, including an empty coffin which has broken apart. The colliery closed in 1969

Glyn Pits Colliery, near Pontypool, Gwent, South Wales
Detail of the pump flywheel of the 1845 beam engine, at the Glyn Pits Colliery, near Pontypool, Gwent, South Wales. The mine closed in 1932, but continued as a pumping station into the 1960s

Skewen Colliery workmen, Glamorgan, South Wales
Workmen and apprentices of the Skewen Colliery repair shop in Glamorgan, South Wales, in a group photograph

Senghenydd Colliery canary, Glamorgan, South Wales
Two miners at the Universal Pit, Senghenydd Colliery, near Caerphilly, Glamorgan, South Wales, with a caged canary which was used to test the air for gas, or lack of oxygen

Young collier, Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
A young collier, about 14 years old, at a colliery in the Saundersfoot area of Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales. The mines employed children as young as ten

Men with dram, Elliot Colliery, New Tredegar, South Wales
Two men hauling a dram (truck) full of coal from a cage at the pithead of the Elliot Colliery, New Tredegar, Rhymney Valley, South Wales

Colliery map of Hook, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
A colliery map (by Thomas Lewis) of the village of Hook, described here as West Hook in the parish of Langwn (Llangwm), showing fields, trees and mining locations

Men at West Pit, Elliot Colliery, New Tredegar, South Wales
Miners preparing to descend the West Pit of the Elliot Colliery, New Tredegar, Rhymney Valley, South Wales. The West Pit opened in the 1880s

Men with dram, Hook Colliery, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
Three men with a loaded dram (truck) of coal at Hook Colliery, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, South Wales

Medieval French Mining
A coal mine in France during the medieval era, showing the ladders that the miners use to descend to the coal face

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