Mining Collection (page 12)

Coal miner starting to make a hole Victorian period

Cutter Cove, Brunswick Peninsula, Chile, South America
Bay of Cutter Cove, a copper mining area on the Brunswick Peninsula south of Punta Arenas, Chile, South America. With two men working from a boat, and a narrow gauge railway track. Date: circa 1910

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

Kumasi Fort, Ghana, Gold Coast, West Africa. It was under siege during the Anglo-Ashanti War (1900). Date: circa 1905

Spitsbergen, Norway - Adventfjorden (Advent Bay). Depicted here is the former mining camp of Longyearbyen (located on its southwestern shore)

View of Kumasi, Ghana, Gold Coast, West Africa
View of Kumasi, including part of the railway station, Ghana, Gold Coast, West Africa. Date: circa 1915

Harper Road, Kumasi, Ghana, Gold Coast, West Africa. Date: circa 1930

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

Theatre in Kimberley, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Theatre Royal in Kimberley, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Walter Melvilles Company were performing The Girl Who Lost Her Character, a bad woman drama. Date: circa 1904

Kimberley, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
De Beers Road, Kimberley, Northern Cape Province, South Africa, with shops, traffic and people. Date: circa 1908

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

Queen Mary amongst the Colliers
Queen Mary on a carriage visiting a Coalmine whilst on a tour of the Collieries with King George V, assessing the conditions of labour of the " brave workers of the mines" - June 1912

Ferreira Gold Mining Company, Transvaal, South Africa, circa 1888 (Robert Harris studio). Date: circa 1888

On strike: the colliers family at home, 1912
On strike: the colliers family at home in South Wales. A study from life by Fortunino Matania. The national strike ended after 37 days, with the introduction of the minimum wage act. 1912

Cardiff Strike - Policemen - Tonypandy Riots
Cardiff Strike - London Policeman brought in to aid management of rioting miners. The Tonypandy Riots, sometimes known as the Rhondda Riots

The ruins of Huanchaca, Chile - silver smelting works
Huanchaca ruins - the remains of an old silver smelting plant, located in Antofagasta, Chile. The Antofagasta (Chili) and Bolivia Railway Company plc was incorporated in London in 1888

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

Mining. Drilling with a jackhammer. Diorama. Deutsches Muse
History. Mining. Drilling with a jackhammer. Diorama. Deutsches Museum (Museum of Science and Technology). Munich. Germany

Diorama. Extraction of salt. Wieliczka Salt Mine, Poland
Mining history. Diorama. Extraction of salt. Wieliczka Salt Mine, Poland. In use since the 18th century. Deutches Museum. Munich. Germany

Section of an underground mine. Model of a team in the second half of the nineteenth century. Scale 1:25. Manufactured in 1906. By R. Brown. Deutsches Museum (Museum of Science and Technology)

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

Georgius Agricola (1494-1555). German scientist. Known as the father of mineralogy. Engraving belonging to his work De Re Metallica. Basel 1564. Colored

Sunset at Wheal Coates tin mine, St Agnes, Cornwall
Sunset at Wheal Coates former tin mine, on the cliff top between Porthtowan and St Agnes, north coast of Cornwall, showing the Towanroath Shaft Pumping Engine House. circa 1980s

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

Primitive house in Cananea, Sonora, Mexico
Primitive house (actually a small shed) in Cananea, a copper mining town in Sonora, Mexico. Date: circa 1905

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

Lucky Cuss Restaurant, Tombstone
Painted wooden facia of the Lucky Cuss restaurant in the mining town of Tombstone, Arizona

Charleroi by Joseph Pennell
Charleroi in Belgium in the municipality of Wallonia in the province of Hainault. Renowned for its coal mining and steel industry, the landscape is typically industrial. Date: 1914

Miners hut, Lithgow Valley, New South Wales, Australia
A Miners hut in Lithgow Valley, New South Wales, Australia. Date: circa 1890s

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

Tilt Cove Copper Mine, Newfoundland, Canada. Date: 1902

1930s Poor housing at Blaina, Monmouthshire
A woman and her small child stand outside a single-storey cottage at Blaina in South Wales. Industry in the area was centred on coal-mining and the local tinplate works and suffered great poverty

Undermined houses, Blaenavon, Monmouthshire
A row of houses at Blaenavon, Monmouthshire, supported by wooden props because of subsidence resulting from mining beneath them. Date: circa 1936

Coatbridge miners houses, Lanarkshire
A deserted street of single-storey miners cottages at Coatbridge, a mining and iron-producing area to the east of Glasgow. Date: circa 1936

PIT PONIES / 1869
Horse at work in a South Staffordshire colliery [England] Date: 1869

Rhondda Valley / 1960
The mining village of Treherbert at the head of the Rhondda Fawr in South Wales. Date: 1960

Police at a Tonypandy colliery, Glamorgan, South Wales
Numerous policemen (nicknamed Devonshires) on duty at a colliery engine house in the Tonypandy area of Glamorgan, South Wales, during the riots of 1910

Aerial view of Hook, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
An aerial view of the coastal village of Hook, on the Western Cleddau, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, South Wales. The quay can be seen in the foreground -- it was constructed in the late 18th

Glyn Pits Colliery, near Pontypool, Gwent, South Wales
View of the winding engine house, built in 1845, which worked the pumps at the Glyn Pits Colliery, near Pontypool, Gwent, South Wales

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