Mines Collection (page 4)

Royal Navy Mines on board ship

Royal Navy mines on board ship probably 1930s

Coal miner starting to make a hole Victorian period

Ashanti Obuasi Gold Mines, Ghana, Gold Coast, West Africa
Ashanti Obuasi Gold Mines Corporation, Ghana, Gold Coast, West Africa. Date: circa 1910

Share certificate and coupons, Kilo-Moto Goldmines
Share certificate and dividend coupons, Kilo-Moto Goldmines, in the Belgian Congo. Date: 1944

Market Avenue, Vereeniging, Transvaal, South Africa
Market Avenue, Vereeniging, a coal mining town in Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa. Date: 1930s

The Convent, Lydenburg, Transvaal, South Africa
The Convent, Lydenburg, a gold mining town in Transvaal, South Africa. Date: circa 1905

General view of Barberton, Transvaal, South Africa
General view of Barberton, a gold mining town in Transvaal (now Mpumalanga), South Africa. Date: 1910

Luipardsvlei, Krugersdorp, Transvaal, South Africa
Luipaardsvlei (Luipardsvlei), a suburb of Krugersdorp, a gold mining town in Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa. Date: circa 1905

Main street, Randfontein, Transvaal, South Africa
Main street, Randfontein, a gold mining town in Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa. Date: 1911

South Africa - Nourse Deep Gold Mine at Witwatersrand. Date: 1906

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

Chislehurst caves during WWII
Chislehurst caves, Kent, during WWII. Mothers in bunks and babies in cots deep underground in their cave shelter. 1944

China - Using high-pressure water jet in mining operation. Date: circa 1930s

France. Women working inside of a coal mine. Drawing color
France. Women working inside of a coal mine. The moulineuses.Drawing color. 19th century

Newcomen steam engine invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712. It consisted of a pump designed to reduce water steam in the galleries of mines. Engraving

Germany Reoccupiers Saar
The region of the Saar votes overwhelmingly in a plebiscite to return to Germany - it had been administered by the League of Nations since 1919, the french controlling mines. Date: 1935

Barrel House, Tonopah, Nevada, USA
The Barrel House, built out of barrels and wooden crates, a miners dwelling in Tonopah, Nevada, USA, with a guard dog outside. Date: circa 1910

Bottle House, Tonopah, Nevada, USA
Bottle House, built out of 10, 000 beer bottles, in Tonopah, Nevada, USA, with two guard dogs outside. Date: circa 1910

Mine no. 30, Kenvir, Kentucky, USA
Mine no. 30 of the Black Mountain Coal Corporation at Kenvir, Harlan County, Kentucky, USA. Date: 1927

British couple near Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, Brazil
British couple in Morro Velho, near Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, Brazil. They were part of a large British colony centred around the Morro Velho gold mine

Mine washed up on Suffolk coast, WW1
Two boy scouts pose with a mine at Sizewell, the fuse of which had been removed. It was one of several washed up on the Suffolk coast between Aldeburgh and Southwold in 1914. Date: 1914

German land mines by G. H. Davis
German land mines: an important weapon used on a large scale by retreating German armies during the Second World War. Date: 1945

British mine-laying submarine by G. H. Davis
A British mine-laying submarine: detailed drawings of a boat of the Rorqual Class, in use during the Second World War. It carried out a specialised and dangerous task in enemy waters. Date: 1944

Anti-tank mines by G. H. Davis
Anti-tank mines: a deadly defensive weapon in mechanised warfare during the Second World War. Types of British and German land mines -- a desert minefield being laid, and in operation. Date: 1942

Minesweeper trawling for mines in the North Sea, WW1
A minesweeper trawling for mines in the North Sea on the outbreak of the First World War. A wire rope attached to a weight is dragged along the seabed

Pedro Navarro
PEDRO NAVARRO, conde di Alivetto Spanish military, pioneer in the use of mines. Date: 1460 - 1528

Tunisia - Metlaoui - Phosphate Society Mines of Sfax-Gafsa - unloading the wagns. Date: circa 1910s

Vieille Montagne zinc company. Mines, works and foundries in France and Belgium

D-Day - Metal Detectors in use after invasion
American GIs stroll through a captured village close to the Normandy coast following the invasion. Two metal detector operators check the road ahead of the troops for hidden/buried mines or booby

German U-Boat - UC5
Cross-section through a captured German u-boat submarine - the UC 5. A mine-laying submarine, with six mine-holding chambers in the fore-section of the vessel

Butterfly Bombs Warning Notice, Italy, 1944
Photograph of a British sargeant looking at a warning notice, regarding Butterfly anti-personnel mines in Italy, during the Second World War

The Damaged HMS Saumarez off Albania, 1946
Photograph showing the damaged HMS Saumarez, pictured off the coast of Albania, after she had hit a mine, October 1946. On the night of 22nd October the British destroyers HMS Saumarez

King Solomons Mines
Sir Henry Curtis wrestles with Twala : " It was a mighty struggle, and an awful thing to see." But Sir Henry over- powers his opponent and cuts off his head with his axe

A Girl Putter
A GIRL PUTTER Wearing a harness whose chain passes between her legs, a girl on all fours pulls a laden hutchie through a low gallery, for 100-200 metres

Breakaway from coal strike 1926
After more than a week on general strike, there was a strong movement that began with the coal-miners of the Midlands to break-away from the strike abd return to work

Coal strike: movements towards an offical settlement 1926
Fillings in many of collieries was that the Genaral strike was coming to the end; a flow of men returning back to work steadily increased

Mines
Page showing the various stages of work involved in mining. Date: 1930

Bungalows, Tarquah Mines, Ghana, Gold Coast, West Africa
Bungalows for fitters and miners, Tarquah (Tarkwa) Mines, Ghana, Gold Coast, West Africa. Date: circa 1910

Communist China - civilians laying a landmine
Communist China - Chinese civilians playing their part in the conflict by laying a landmine to hold back the Japanese invaders during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). circa 1940s

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa - Crown Gold Mines
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa - Crown Mines - Gold Mining - miner operating a pneumatic drill. Date: circa 1930s

Pilgrims Rest, Lydenburg, Transvaal, South Africa
Pilgrims Rest, Lydenburg Gold Fields, Transvaal, South Africa. Date: circa 1905

Childrens pool, Boksburg Lake, Transvaal, South Africa
Childrens pool, Boksburg Lake, Boksburg, a gold mining town in Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa. Date: circa 1925

National Bank, Benoni, Transvaal, South Africa
National Bank, Benoni, a gold mining town in Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa. Date: circa 1930

General view of Krugersdorp, Transvaal, South Africa
General view of Krugersdorp, a gold mining town in Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa. Date: 1909

Premier Diamond Mine, Cullinan, Transvaal, South Africa
Premier Diamond Mine, Cullinan, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa, view from no. 4 bridge looking east to Pretoria, showing settling dams for no. 4 gear and tailing dams. Date: circa 1910

Railway station, Krugersdorp, Transvaal, South Africa
Railway station, Krugersdorp, a gold mining town in Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa. Date: circa 1910

General view of Randfontein, Transvaal, South Africa
General view of Randfontein, a gold mining town in Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa. Date: 1910

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