Mining Collection (page 16)

Work at a coal mine, 1878
Work at a coal mine, sinking a shaft. Date: 1878

Chapel Made of Salt
Miners in the salt mine at Wieliczka, Poland, carved this shrine, the Kinga Chapel, in the salt, 101 metres below ground. Successive generations worked on it for 70 years. Date: 17th century

Trevithicks Waterwheel
Richard Trevithick seniors water wheel at Cooks Kitchen mine, Cornwall 1778

Mining Area / Germany
A mining area in Germany. Date: 1909

Mining for Tin / Cornwall
The tin mine at Camborne, Cornwall. Tin is found in the Cornish mines in the form of veins of cassiterite Date: nineteenth century

Mining / South Bulli
SOUTH BULLI Members of the Australian Royal Commission into the coal mining dispute ready to go down the mine at South Bulli, New South Wales. Date: 1930s

Pit Bank Women / 1904
Pit bank women, Wednesbury. Date: 1904

Coal / Horse / Le Creusot
Lowering a horse at the Le Creusot colliery, France Date: 1869

Gold mining on the moon
The Moon will surely be rich in valuable minerals: a gold mine there could be a profitable investment. Date: 1895

Working Class Welcome
From the Mining Districts - - Whos im, Bill ? - A stranger ! - Eave arf a brick at im. Date: 1854

Gold mines at Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia. Date: 1882

Gold mining camp in America
A mining camp on a North-west American river Date: circa 1860s

Quicksilver mining in Guadalcazar, Mexico, 1891
Quicksilver-mining in Mexico: the Guadalcazar quicksilver mines, 1891. 1. Road to the mines through the canon of the Porphyry Mountain; 2. and 3

Greetings postcard from Iglau (Jihlava), Czech Republic
Greetings postcard with an embossed surface from Iglau (Jihlava), Czech Republic. Date: circa 1900s

Miami, Arizona, USA football team
Miami Association Football Club, Miami, Arizona, USA (a mining town), football team and other club members. Date: circa 1908

Goldfield, Nevada, USA
General view of Goldfield, Nevada, USA, a gold mining area, viewed from Columbia Mountain, showing Mohawk Mine, Combination Mine and Mill, Florence Mine. Date: circa 1900s

View at Wheal Jane tin mine, West Cornwall
View at Wheal Jane disused tin mine, near Baldhu and Chacewater, West Cornwall. Some of the equipment can be seen here in silhouette against a cloudy orange sky. Date: circa 1980s

View at Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall
View of Levant Mine and Beam Engine, Trewellard, Pendeen, near St Just, Cornwall, where tin and copper were mined between 1820 and 1930. Date: circa 1980s

Mules hauling props, Shamokin, Pennsylvania, USA
A six-mule team hauling props for use in coal mining, Shamokin, Pennsylvania, USA. Date: circa 1908

Thomas Sopwith (1803-1879) & geological models
Thomas Sopwith (1803 - 1879) was an eminent geologist and civil engineer who pioneered methods of representing geological features

Sopwith Model XII: Denudation of mineral veins
This model shows the influence of surface denudation and faulting on inclined strata, with increased complexity to the situation in Model VII

Sopwith Model VII: Surface denudation of veins
This model shows the influence of surface denudation and faulting on otherwise flat, horizontal strata. The discontinuity between the beds as viewed at the surface can be seen

Sopwith Models: denudation & faulting
Models showing the effect of denudation and faulting on how rock strata appear at the surface. Thomas Sopwith (1803 - 1879)

Sopwith Model II: Coal strata near Newcastle
Unlike the models of generic situations this representation of coal strata was specific to a particular surveyed location in England showing several thin, and mostly hidden, coal seams

Sopwith Model VII: Denudation of mineral veins
This model shows the influence of surface denudation and faulting on otherwise flat, horizontal strata. The discontinuity between the beds as viewed at the surface can be seen

Sopwith Model VI: Intersecting mineral veins
This Model, rather than representing the strata as they would appear at the surface, shows how a seam of coal can be displaced in the subsurface by various modes of faulting

Sopwith Model XI: Vertical intersecting veins
This model, when separated, shows the complex interface between faulted strata of rocks. Thomas Sopwith (1803 - 1879) was an eminent geologist

Sopwith Model XII: Mineral vein denudation
This model shows the influence of surface denudation and faulting on inclined strata, with increased complexity to the situation in Model VII

Sopwith Model VIII: Overcutting of strata
This model shows overcut strata: when the layers of rock are inclined at a gentler angle than the eroded slope, the resulting vee pattern points uphill

Sopwith Model VII: Surface denudation
This model shows the influence of surface denudation and faulting on otherwise flat, horizontal strata. The discontinuity between the beds as viewed at the surface can be seen

Sopwith Model X: Denuded basset of strata
This model shows undercut strata: when the layers of rock are inclined at a steeper angle than the eroded slope, the resulting vee pattern points downhill

Sopwith Model V: Dislocations of coal strata
This model shows that while very little coal may appear at ground level, coal seams (subject to faults and dislocations) can be found below the ground

Sopwith Model IV: Fallacious coal indications
This model depicts the scenario where from the surface an abundance of coal appears to exist, but there is actually very little quantity below

Sopwith Model III: Dislocation of strata
This model represents the side of a valley of denudation, with undisturbed horizontal beds of sedimentary rock when fully assembled

Sopwith Model I: Stratified rocks / denudation
Black lines in this model represent coal seams, between lighter shales and sandstones. When separated the lower section shows a gently inclined valley floor

Sopwith Model II: Coal strata nr Newcastle
Unlike the models of generic situations this representation of coal strata was specific to a particular surveyed location in England showing several thin, and mostly hidden, coal seams

Cover of Thomas Sopwiths Geological Model Set
Thomas Sopwith (1803 - 1879) was an eminent geologist and civil engineer who pioneered methods of representing geological features

Thomas Sopwiths Geological Model Set
Thomas Sopwith (1803 - 1879) was an eminent geologist and civil engineer who pioneered methods of representing geological features

View of McGill, Nevada, USA, with the Nevada Northern Railway on the right. It was a location for copper mining and smelting. Date: circa 1913

Can House, Tonopah, Nevada, USA
The Can House (constructed out of metal cans), Tonopah, Nevada, USA, with a man standing outside. Date: circa 1910

Mizpah Shaft, Tonopah Mining Company, Nevada, USA
Mizpah Shaft of the Tonopah Mining Company, Nevada, USA. Date: circa 1910

View of Tonopah, Nevada, USA
View of Tonopah, a mining town in Nevada, USA. Date: circa 1940

Selwyn, Queensland, Australia
View of Selwyn, Western Queensland, Australia, a copper and gold mining town, with the Mount Elliott Hotel on the right. Date: circa 1910

Gold Hill, Nevada, USA
General view of Gold Hill, Nevada, USA, a mining town with a predominantly Cornish population. 1875

Rock salt mine, Lyons, Kansas, USA
Rock salt mine at Lyons, Kansas, USA Date: circa 1910

Gold bricks on display, Lead, South Dakota, USA
Gold bricks on display at Lead, South Dakota, USA. The large Homestake Gold Mine was discovered in 1876. The gold bricks seen here were worth $125, 000 at the time

Come down under Australia emigration poster 1926-7
Poster encouraging British emigration to Australia, 1926-7. To the young unemployed miner, come down under and be a digger on the surface. Work, health and happiness on the land in Australia

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